88 THE BOOK OF PEARS AND PLUMS 



Ordinary manure is not often given. It may cause 

 rank growth. Dr Griffiths recommends the following 

 artificials : 3 parts weight of kainit, 2 parts of super- 

 phosphate, I part of nitrate of soda. Three Ibs. of this 

 mixture should be applied to each tree shortly before 

 active growth begins. If the land is deficient in lime or 

 chalk some should be given to each tree. 



W. C. (in Watson) : " Superphosphate of lime, 5 

 Ibs., sulphate of potash, 2 Ibs., sulphate of magnesia, 

 \ lb., chloride of soda, \ lb. Apply during mild 

 weather in February at the rate of 4 ozs. to the square 

 yard of border, or the full quantity 8 Ibs. to each rod 

 of orchard ground." 



Gather fruit dry before it is quite ripe. Cherries are 

 usually sent to market in baskets which contain 24 Ibs. 

 nett ; very choice fruit in 12 lb. baskets. 



The word cherry comes from the old English cheri, 

 chiri, and that probably from the French cerise, that 

 from the Latin cerasus, and that from the Greek 

 (/ce/oao-oY) kerasos. "Cheri or chiri was a corruption 

 of cheris or chiris, the final j- being mistaken for the 

 plural inflection ; the same mistake occurs in several 

 other words, notably in pea as shortened from pease, 

 Latin pisum " (Skeat). 



