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be hardy enough for orchard culture. 

 The grower of cherries should be parti- 

 cularly careful as to the stock to which it 

 is grafted, as no other kind is fit for the 

 purpose but that of the wild black cherry 

 and it should not be used if there is 

 the least appearance of wound or gum 

 to be perceived on any part it, for ihey 

 are seldom known to recover of this dis- 

 ease, which is very prevalent in cherry 

 trees. 



It should be observed that the cherry 

 is, in the nurseries, often budded or 

 grafted close to the ground, and the 

 stems trained up to single stems, which 

 are formed into standard trees j now, as I 

 have observed before, all cultivated varie- 

 ties of fruit are more tender than the 

 wild parent ; the latter should never be 

 chosen in preference for orchard plant- 

 ing. 



This fruit, I observe, is cultivated in all 

 kinds of soil, and does not seem at all 

 nice as to its selecting any particular kind 

 more than another. 



Notwithstanding the supposed absur- 



