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aspect. It can also be grown as a " bush," and where 

 the soil suits (and this variety is not very particular) 

 very abundant crops are got nearly every year. These 

 are always in good demand for confectionery, etc., selling 

 at 9d. per lb., wholesale, and upwards. 



It generally pays to protect with old fish netting all 

 good Morello cherry trees, as they will hang thus well 

 into October. 



The following are good kinds and heavy croppers : 

 Adam's Crown, formerly largely grown in West Kent 

 for a first crop ; Bowyer's Early Heart, a prolific early 

 cherry ; Belle d'Orleans ; Black Heart, early and hand- 

 some ; Bedford Prolific, Turkey Heart, and Black 

 Circassian, or Tartarian, two best black ; Empress 

 Eugenie and Governor Wood, two best early red ; Heine 

 Hortense, Planchoury, Elton, and Florence, four first- 

 class late sorts. Napoleon and White Bizarreau are 

 good market sorts, as well as nearly all the Duke 

 varieties. On the Mahaleb stock, cherries can be grown 

 as bush trees on the dwarf plan, and can be then planted 

 at six feet to eight feet apart. These can be grown well 

 in orchard houses, as they thus escape the risk of early 

 spring frosts, our worst foe, after all, perhaps, in English 

 fruit growing. 



Cherries, under glass, are grown to perfection by 

 Rivers and Son, and some of the trade consider that 

 orchard houses, devoted to the best early sorts, would 

 pay well. But local wants must be first studied, as well 

 as the sharp foreign competition in early cherries. 



