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CHERRY. 



and with a dry subsoil. Cherries for the 

 table, if planted against a wall, should 

 have a southern aspect ; but the Kentish 

 and Morello Cherry will bear well and 

 ripen their fruit on a north, north-east, or 

 north-west wall. On walls careful training 

 is necessary, but for orchards the best form 

 is that of the standard or pyramid. 



Cherry, Varieties of. 



The following are excellent varieties of 

 cherries, arranged, as far as possible, in 

 the order of ripening : 



(i) WHITE HEART, EARLY. 

 i. Frogmore Biggareau. 



2. Elton Heart. 



3. Governor Wood 



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Adam's Crown Heart. 



(2) WHITE HEART, LATE. 



1. Kentish Biggareau or Amber. 



2. Biggareau Napoleon. 



3. Large French Biggareau. 



(3) BLACK. 



1. Werder's Early Black Heart. 



2. Old Black Heart. 



3. Black Cluster or Carone. 



4. Black Biggareau. 



(4) RED OK MORELLO. 



1. Kentish. 



2. Flemish. 



3. Morello. 



Cherry Clack. 



With birds, as with human beings, it is 

 found that too much familiarity breeds con- 

 tempt, and that however cleverly scare- 

 crows may be constructed their want of 

 motion begets suspicion in the birds that 

 they are intended to alarm ; and rinding 

 eventually that the supposed guardian of 

 the seed or fruit, as the case may be, 

 remains silent and motionless, they draw 

 nearer and nearer, and ultimately hop round 

 it and about it, treating it with the contempt 

 that it fully deserves. Motion, noise, and 

 glitter are the things which birds mostly 

 dislike. They will avoid pieces of paper 

 and feathers tied to string or twine and 

 stretched over seed beds, though the string, 



if plainly discernible, will keep them off, 

 even without paper or feathers attached to 

 it. The fluttering of the paper is strange to 

 them, the net-like cords abhorrent, and so 

 they keep awry from the spot that is thus 

 protected. Figures of soldiers and sailors, 

 whose arms end in fans that are turned by 

 the action of the wind, formed in the 

 semblance of broadswords, are disliked by 

 the birds on account of the whirling and 

 twirling that they keep up in every direc- 

 tion, according to the way of the wind. 

 But worse than these is the appliance known 

 as the cherry clack, which turns about as 



CHERRY CLACK. 



rapidly as these, and keeps up a perpetual 

 rapping in even a moderately brisk breeze, 

 with its castanet-like fittings. The cherry 

 clack is figured in the accompanying illus- 

 tration, and consists, first of all, of a long 

 axle, having four fans, slightly inclined to 

 a plane at right angles to it, placed at one 

 end. When the wind blows, its pressure 

 on the fans causes the axle to revolve with 

 greater or less rapidity. The axle is sus- 

 tained by a framework, consisting of an 

 upright piece fitted to another piece of 

 wood, which is bored through to receive a 

 pin set on a pole on which the whole affair 



