CHERRIES. 347 



BY THE EDITOR. 



Apricots are often budded in this country on peach stocks ; 

 on which they take well, and grow freely ; but they will not 

 hold their fruit as well, nor will they be as hardy, and long- 

 lived as those budded on good Plum stocks : a tree worked 

 on a good Plum stock is worth six on a peach slock. For 

 pruning, training, and management, of open dwarfs starM- 

 ards, or espaliers, see the directions for Peaches ; as Apri- 

 cots, Peaches, Nectarines, and Almonds, produce their fruit 

 on the shoots of the former season's growth, their man- 

 agement in pruning and training will be similar. 



CHAPTER III. 

 CULTIVATION OF CHERRIES. 



Propagation. 



Cherries are propagated by budding and grafting upon the 

 small Black Cherry stock. Those intended for standards 

 are always worked standard high. 



In the nursery it ought not to be attempted to work 

 dwarfs among standards, except on those stocks which have 

 not grown up sufficiently high for the purpose of standards, 

 as they never make good plants when overgrown by the 

 upper crop. Dwarfs are at all times the best when grown 

 by themselves ; and if good bedded stocks have been quar- 

 tered out, they will generally be fit to graft when they have 

 been planted a year. 



As I have observed before, when speaking of apples, bud- 

 ding is not to be recommended for dwarfs, as they never 

 make such good plants as those which have been grafted. 



In order, therefore, to preserve a uniformity in a quarter 

 of cherries, and to grow them with the least possible waste, 

 it is necessary the stocks should be assorted previously to 

 their being planted out, selecting the handsomest and best, 



