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trees are yearlings. The stock on which the cherries are 

 budded is very important. The sour cherries are budded 

 mainly upon Mahaleb stock, but sometimes they are worked 

 on the Mazzard stock. The sweet varieties are almost 

 universally budded upon the Mazzard stock. 



FIG. 113. Sweet cherry tree, two years old. (Gould, United States 

 Department of Agriculture.) 



Where cherries are grown on a large scale it seems to be 

 advisable to select the buds for propagation purposes from 

 bearing trees that have proved their worth. It is a known 

 fact that certain trees bear uniformly every year while others 

 bear sparingly and some scarcely at all. When the buds are 

 taken from non-bearing trees the propagator never knows 

 whether the new tree is going to be of any value, while if 

 the buds are selected from a bearing tree with good fruit 

 the chances seem to be greater for success in producing a good 

 bearing tree. 



