212 CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT 



CHERRIES. 



THERE are several native varieties of the cherry 

 in the United States, which have been perpetuated 

 from the seed, unaided by the hand of culture, and, 

 as supposed, without any deviation from the ori- 

 ginal stock. But the cultivated kinds are far more 

 valuable, and it is greatly to be regretted, that 

 they are so generally neglected. Many advan- 

 tages would accrue to the farmer from the cultiva- 

 tion of the cherry tree ; it would serve the useful 

 purposes of ornament and shade'to his orchard and 

 buildings, and the fruit would afford his family not 

 merely an innocent, but a salutary luxury ; and if 

 near a market, the profit would remunerate him 

 for all his labour and expense. 



The cultivated cherry, when reared from the 

 seed, is much disposed to deviate from the variety 

 of the original fruit, and, of course, they are pro- 

 pagated by budding or grafting on cherry stocks: 

 budding is most generally preferred, as the tree is 

 less apt to suffer from oozing of the gum than when 

 grafted. The stocks are obtained by planting the 

 seeds in a nursery, and the seedlings are afterwards 

 transplanted. Those kinds which are called heart 

 cherries are said to succeed best on the black ma- 

 zard stock; but for the round kind, the Morello 

 stocks are preferred, on account of their being the 

 least subject to worms, or to cracks in the bark, 

 from frost and heat of the sun. The whole method 

 of management pertaining to cherry trees is so pre- 

 cisely similar to that already detailed, when treat- 

 ing of peach trees, that very little remains to be 

 said on the present occasion. But the following di- 

 rections given by Forsyth, in his treatise on fruit 

 trees, will probably be acceptable. 



