i8 The Gardener*s New Directoi^. 



be planted eighteen or twenty-four feet afunder, and H 

 ftandard between each dwarf; this diftance is fufficient. 

 When the dwarfs have grown up fo as to fill the wall, 

 the ftandards mufl; be taken away. I would choofe to 

 have them from the nurferies the middle of Ofloher ; and 

 having cut off all their bruifed roots and fibres, and made 

 the trees handfome and Tightly, turning the place where 

 they are budded to the wall ; plant the flandards with 

 their flems one foot trom the wall, and their heads in- 

 clining to it, fecuring them with lifts of cloth: The 

 dwarfs may be planted at the fame time, but they muft 

 not lie at fuch a diftance from the wall, five inches be- 

 ing fully fufficient. During the winter, lay fome mulch, 

 turf, or ftraw, about the roots of the new planted trees, 

 to prote61: them from froft. In the fpring, if it is dry, 

 lay turf, with the grafly fide downwards, on their roots; 

 but when rain falls, uncover the roots, to receive the 

 vernal fhowers. They will require no other care, ex- 

 cept keeping the borders quite clear of weeds, which 

 borders fhould be ten feet broad from the wall. la 

 fummer, all fore-right fhoots which are produced from 

 the beginning of May, to the fixth of Junei muft be 

 pinched off with your finger and thumb only, and not 

 by any inftrument, either to cherries, or any other fort 

 of wall-fruit ; for fhould it be done with the knife, the 

 branch or bud would foon canker down to the main 

 flioot ; and fuch (hoots as are fo injured, will not attempt 

 to fpring again that year, at leaft not fo foon as if they 

 had been performed with the finger, from the ready heal- 

 ing of fuch wounds. Should the fore-right fhoots be ful- 

 fered to ftand at this feafon, or until the autumnal, the 

 winter, or vernal drefting, they would deprive the fruit- 

 bearing branches of their proper nouriftiment, tofupport 

 good fucceeding crops. But with refpefl to Cherry-trees, 

 fuch autumnal amputation makes them gum, and be- 

 come good for nothing in a few years, efpecially the 

 ivlorello Cherries, which, the more they are cut, the 

 fconer they die; for, in order to have their fruit well 

 tafted and large, it is necefiary to allow them to grow 

 unfeemly and quite rude upon a fouth wall, without 

 ever allowing a knife to be applied to them ; and from 

 thofe trees thus indulged, I have had better, larger, and 



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