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leached ashes to two or three of peat is an 

 excellent manure for the cherry. 



Distance. The distance for cherries, in an 

 orchard, is about the same as that for pear- 

 trees, say eighteen to twenty-five feet. Some 

 varieties may be set nearer together than 

 others. 



Transplanting. Two years from the bud 

 is a sufficiently large size for setting in the 

 orchard. Like those of the pear, large cher- 

 ry-trees are not easily moved, unless they have 

 been previously re-set, once or twice (since 

 they were in the nursery. See directions al- 

 ready given, in the Chapter on Transplant- 

 ing. 



Cultivation. Follow the directions in the 

 chapters on The Apple and The Pear. 



Pruning. The cherry needs but very lit- 

 tle pruning, less than almost any other fruit- 

 tree. The directions, in the Chapter on The 

 Apple, may be followed so far as it may seem 

 necessary to prune at all. 



Insects, Diseases, Remedies. The cherry 

 in our climate, is happily exempt from dis- 

 eases and the depredations of insects. 



Birds may be kept from the fruit by a cov- 



