CH. 3,] CHERRIES. 49 



About the ift of January is a good time 

 to plant ; although a month fooner or later 

 at this feafon is of little confequence, as 

 no fire heat muft he applied the firft year. 

 Having provided the neceflary number of 

 healthy, well-rooted, maiden, or one-year- 

 trained May-dukes*; let them be planted 

 againft the trellis at the diftance of eight, 

 nine, or ten feet, as the length of the houfe 

 will beft divide; filling in the pits with 

 vegetable mould from decayed tree-leaves, 

 and fettling all with a little water. Riders, 

 having five or fix feet boles, which have 

 been trained two or three years againft a 

 wall, and have produced a crop or two, 

 fhould be provided to fill the upper part of 

 the trellis; where they will produce a few 

 crops before the dwarfs will have extend- 

 ed, fo as to require their removal. Thefe 

 will generally produce a few fruit the firft, 

 and probably will yield a full crop the fe- 

 cond year. 



Let the furface of the border be fork- 

 ed over once or twice a-year ; and let a 

 little well-rotten dung occafionally be 

 D worked 



* Experience fliews that no other Cherry deferves 

 a place in a forcing houfe. 



