UTILISATION OF WALLS AND BUILDINGS APRICOTS - CHERRIES. 305 



does not pay so well as that of the Morello ; pears and plums are not good enough from 

 sucli an aspect for market. 



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Apricots. Varieties : Hemskork, Moorpark, Powell's Late, Breda and Shipley's 

 should be planted in cold districts. The apricot requires a calcareous soil, but it suc- 

 ceeds in firm siliceous or stony ground. The fruit meets a ready local sale at the resi- 

 dences of the opulent for preserving at prices ranging from Is. 6d. to 3s. per do.'.en, 

 according to size and season. Sometimes 4s. per dozen is realised for fine fruit. If sent 

 to market the fruit should be packed in boxes, but only good returns can be expected 

 from first-class fruiterers and for high-class fruit. Cottagers have been known to sell 

 enough fruit from one tree on the south side of their house to pay the rent. Dwarf 

 trained trees cost from 5s. to 10s. 6d. each. These have from twenty to thirty shoots 

 and come into bearing in the second or third year from planting. In the seventh year 

 the trees cover a large extent of wall, bearing freely on well-ripened young shoots 

 and spurs. Maiden trees range in price from Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. each, and one year 

 trained trees can be had of the principal nurserymen for 3s. 6d. to 5s. each. 

 Maiden trees ought not to be allowed to bear much fruit until the fourth or fifth 

 year. 



Cherries. Varieties : Early llivcrs and Governor Wood, grown on a south wall, come 

 in very early and briug good prices at first-class shops if neatly packed in boxes. 

 Empress Eugenie, May Duke, Archduke, and Duchesse de Palluau succeed well in 

 most districts against a north wall, enhancing their value by prolonging the season. 

 Morello succeeds admirably against north or west walls, gables, and the sides of houses, 

 stables, or barns. Cherries prefer a calcareous or firm sandy soil. Dwarf trained trees 

 cost from 2s. 6d. to 5s. each, standards for buildings to which cattle have access (the stems 

 being protected), 3s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. each. They commence bearing about the third year 

 and become profitable in the seventh or eighth season. Burdening the trees with heavy 

 loads of fruit in their early years causes them to become stunted. The produce has 

 reached 1 pound per square foot of surface covered, but a fourth of that amount of fruit 

 is nearer the average. Only fine fruit pays in punnets or boxes, price from 3d. to 

 Is. per pound. 



Figs. Varieties : White Marseilles, Brown Turkey (the best), and Brunswick (for 

 large areas, gables, and walls of buildings). Calcareous soil or a firm gravelly stratum 

 is necessary. Dwarf trained trees cost from 3s. 6d. to 5s. each ; standards, 5s. to 

 10s. 6d. each. The trees commence bearing as soon as well established. If they 



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