348 CHERRIES. 



and as nearly of a size as possible for standards ; the smaller 

 and less handsome ones may follow in the quarter to be em- 

 ployed for dwarfs. By pursuing this method the crop of 

 both standards arid dwarfs will be regular, and much better 

 than when the weak plants have to contend with the strong, 

 and the least waste will in all cases be occasioned. 



Pruning and Training. 



Standard cherries for the orchard require the same man- 

 agement, generally, as standard apples, and the same me- 

 thod may be pursued as directed under that head ; but as 

 the former of these are more generally raised from buds than 

 from grafts, they will at first require a different treatment, 

 namely, that of heading them down the first year. On this 

 account they ought never to be planted later than the end of 

 October, or the middle of November : this early planting 

 will enable the trees to make fresh roots previously to the 

 spring, when, in April, as soon as the buds begin to break 

 out, they should be headed down to within three or four 

 inches of the place where they had been budded. If the 

 trees be good, there will be a sufficient number of eyes to 

 produce as many shoots as will be required to furnish the 

 head : should more than four be produced, they should be 

 reduced to this number* of such as are the best placed. 

 These must be allowed to extend at length without being 

 shortened, nothing further being required than to cut out su- 

 perfluous shoots, so as to keep the head uniform and hand- 

 some. If the heads of young trees be carefully attended to 

 the first three or four years, they will rarely get into confu- 

 sion afterwards ; they must, nevertheless, be looked over 

 frequently, as shoots are occasionally produced, through 

 a local injury of the branch, which may require to be re- 

 moved. 



ESPALIER CHERRIES. 



Espalier cherries, and those trained against the wall, re- 

 quire precisely the same management, both as to pruning 

 and training. For this purpose, trees which have been graft- 

 ed are always to be preferred to those which have been 

 raised from buds : they must be cut back at the com- 

 mencement, as directed for Apricots ; but the branches, 

 except in Morellos, must be trained horizontally instead of 



