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cultivation. Tlie French divide their Cherries into griottes, 

 or tender-fleshed; bigareau, or heart-shaped, and guignes, 

 or small fruit. The fruit of many varieties is somewhat 

 heart- shaped, whence they are called ox-heart, white-heart, 

 black-heart, &c. ; why some sorts are called dukes, is not 

 so obvious. The morello cherry is very different from the 

 other varieties, bearing almost exclusively from the preceding 

 year's wood, and the pulp of the fruit having the consistence 

 and flavour of the fungi called morel ; whence the name. 

 The Chinese Cherry is valuable on account of its bearing 

 an excellent fruit, and ripening it in forcing- ho uses. 



Cherries are grafted, or budded on seedlings from Cherry 

 stones, and from seedlings of the red and black mazzard. 

 For dwarfing they are worked on the morello, or perfumed 

 Cherry ; the latter is preferred in Holland. In jhis country, 

 the budding system is more frequently practised on stone 

 fruit in general, than grafting. 



Cherry trees, in general, produce the fruit upon small 

 spurs or studs, from half an inch to two inches in length, 

 which proceed from the sides and ends of the two year, 

 three year and older branches, and as new spurs continue 

 shooting from the extreme parts, it is a maxim in pruning 

 both standards and espaliers, not to shorten the bearing 

 branches when there is room for their regular extension. 



The morello is in some degree an exception, as it bears 

 principally on the shoots of the preceding year, the fruit 

 proceeding immediately from the eyes of shoots ; and 

 bears bat casually, and in a small degree, on close spurs 

 formed on the two year old wood, and scarcely ever on 

 wood of the third year; therefore, in pruning, leave a supply 

 of young shoots on all the branches from the origin to the 

 extremity of the tree, for next year's bearers* 



All kinds of Cherry trees, except the morello, are apt to 

 grow very tall ; to remedy this, and to enable them to form 

 handsome heads, the leading shoot should be cut off, when 

 about three years 1 growth from the bud ; after which give 

 only occasional pruning, to reform or remove any casual 

 irregularity from cross-placed or very crowded branches, 

 and take away all cankery and decayed wood. 



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