114 FRUIT BOOK. 



The following are new plums of recent intro- 

 duction, not as yet fruited with us : 



De Montfort, 

 Fellenberg, 

 Outline's Late Green, 

 Guthrie's New Apricot, 

 Imperiale de Milan, 



Knight's Green Drying 



Peach, 

 Columbia, 



Perdrigon Violet Hative, 

 Eeine Claude de Bavay, 



Gifford's Lafayette, I Reine Claude d'Octobre. 



THE CHERRY. 



The wild cherry is a native of many parts of 

 the world, and has been cultivated in the East 

 ever since the Christian era. Cherries were ex- 

 posed in the markets of London in 1415, much 

 in the manner they are at present. Mclntosh re- 

 marks, that cherries have not multiplied so fast 

 into varieties as most other fruits. Forsyth de- 

 scribes eighteen sorts ; Lindley, twenty-eight ; Ni- 

 col, eight ; Rogers, twenty-five ; the Horticultu- 

 ral Society of London, fifty-seven ; and Loudon, 

 twenty-three. This tree will accommodate itself 

 to a variety of soils ; but the best is that of a light 

 loam upon a dry sub-soil, and in an airy expo- 

 sure, not shaded by larger trees, and as little sub- 

 ject to damp fogs as possible, as the fruit in such 

 situations is exceedingly apt to rot at the time of 

 ripening. The cherry, as well as fruit trees gene- 

 rally, should not be transplanted when the ground 

 is saturated with water, or what is termed muddy. 

 In planting this, and other fruit trees general- 

 ly, we prefer the autumn for light soils, and spring 

 for those of a heavy and wet nature ; and also to 

 transplant in moist weather. Standard cherries, 

 when once established, require very little pruning. 

 They in general produce fruit upon spurs which 

 proceed from the sides of the two-year, three- 



