CHERRIES PROP A GA TION. 



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HIGH WALLS. 



South or East. 

 Elton. 



Belle de Choisv. 

 Reine Hoi-tense. 

 Bigarreau. 

 Tradescant's Heart. 

 Bigarreau Napoleon. 



WALL. 



Bedford Prolific. 

 ISelle Mugnifique. 

 Morello. 



FOR LONG HANGING. 

 mack. 



Black Tartarian. 

 Black Eagle. 

 Tradescant's Heart. 



White. 



Wood. 

 Bigarreau Napoleon. 

 Florence. 



FOR EARLY FORCING. 



Trellises. 

 Marly Elvers. 

 Black Tartarian. 

 Governor Wood. 



Later Houses, 

 May Duke. 

 Elton. 

 Mammoth. 



FOR POTS. 

 Compact Growers. 

 Belle (VOrleans. 

 Marly Rivers. 

 Early Red Bigarreau. 

 Empress Eugenie. 



Bigarreau de Schieken. 

 (iiivernor Wood. 

 May Duke. 

 Black Eagle. 

 Archduke. 

 Nouvelle Royal. 

 Florence. 

 Late Duke. 



Large Growers. 

 Early Jaboulay. 

 Black Tartarian. 

 Bohemian Black Bigarreau. 

 Elton. 



Reine Hortense. 

 Bigarreau. 

 Bigarreau de Mezel. 

 Mammoth. 

 Duchess de Palluau. 

 Bigarreau Napoleon. 

 Belle Magnifique. 

 Tradescant's Heart. 



PROPAGATION. 



The cherry is raised from seed to originate new varieties and obtain stocks, layering 

 being occasionally practised to secure stocks of particular kinds, and .fit some varieties 

 for special mode of culture, and the finer varieties are perpetuated and increased by 

 budding and grafting. 



Raising New Varieties. Mr. T. A. Knight has stated that the cherry sported more 

 from seed than any other fruit subjected by him to cross-fertilisation, and expressed his 

 belief that it was capable of higher perfection than cultural effort had yet attained ; 

 he originated the fine varieties Black Eagle, Elton, and Waterloo. Excellent sorts 

 have at various times been introduced from the Continent, and some new varieties have 

 been raised in England, the finest of all early cherries by Mr. T. Eivers, namely, Early 

 Eivers. Yet there is room for improvement, particularly in those essential require- 

 ments of our climate, hardiness of constitution in the tree, and endurance of wet in 

 the fruit. These are characteristics of English-raised varieties, none, perhaps, equalling 

 Waterloo in its endurance of wet weather, and raisers must not lose sight of those 

 desiderata in seeking to originate improved varieties. Some varieties reproduce them- 

 selves more or less certainly from seed, but there is no reliance to be placed upon any 

 of them to do so with accuracy. Even the wild Gean varies in its seedlings, but the 

 further removed from the type the parents are, the less becomes the danger of reversion 

 in the seedlings. 



