^1 S CHERRIES* 



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 propagated 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 suc- 

 ceed best on the black mazard 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 precisely similar to that alread}' detailed, when 

 treating 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* 



"In choosing and planting of young cherry trees, 

 the same rules are to be observed that are given for 

 apricots, peaches and nectarines ; and they must in 

 Jike manner be headed down the first year. 



"In pruning cherries, never shorten their shoots ; 

 for most of them produce their fruit at the extremities, 

 the shortening or cutting offof which very frequently 

 occasions the'death of the shoot, at least of a great 

 part of it. The branches, therefore, should be trained 

 at full length. I have often seen the whole tree killed 

 by injudicious pruning. Wherever the knife is ap- 

 plied, it is sure to bring on the gum, and afterwards 

 the canker, which will inevitably kill the trees, if no 

 remedy be applied to the wounds. I have headed 

 down a great many cherry trees, which were almost 



: * The small black cherry that grows wild in the woods, an- 

 swers very well for stocks for any kind of cherries, more espec 

 tally if it is desired to have the tree grow very large, 



