394 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Cherries. 



Our plants produced a few specimens last year, and, from 

 the ordinary size of the clusters and berries, we thought it had 

 been overrated ; but, the present season, when the bushes had 

 acquired sufficient strength to bear a crop, we were happily dis- 

 appointed in finding the fruit and bunches of such large size 

 and beautiful appearance ; and our drawing {^fig- 32) is an 

 accurate representation, by measurement, of the size of both 

 berry and bunch. 



The plants are of exceedingly vigorous habit, with foliage 

 differing from the White and Red Dutch in being thicker, 

 deeper green, and not so finely cut at the edges : in good rich 

 soil, the annual shoots are very stout and strong. 



The currant, as we have stated in the article before allud- 

 ed to, requires to be severely pruned when the object is large 

 and handsome bunches and berries. It would be useless to 

 expect fine fruit unless this is attended to. At the spring 

 pruning, every new shoot should be headed back to four or 

 five eyes, and the old wood wholly cut out, or as much of it 

 as possible, as it is only on the young and vigorous wood 

 that the best fruit is produced. By attending to these sug- 

 gestions, the cultivator may have the very finest fruit. 



We may therefore highly recommend the Victoria cur- 

 rant ; and, as its production is one step towards a superior 

 fruit, we hope our amateur cultivators may be induced to fol- 

 low up ther experiment until something still better shall be the 

 result. 



Art. III. Descriptions and Engravings of select varieties of 

 Cherries. By the Editor. 



Having, in our several volumes, described and figured up- 

 wards of EIGHTY varieties of pears, embracing all the choicest 

 which have yet been proved, and having also commenced 

 another series of articles in which we intend to describe and 

 figure all the fine sorts of apples in the same manner, we now 

 intend to devote the same attention to the cherry, and describe 

 and figure all the fine ones which are worthy of cultivation. 

 We have been gathering the materials for some time, and 



