THE CHERRY. 



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judiciously planted, or a failure will surely ensue. 

 It is quite a mistake to plant them on a cold west or 

 north border. I am aware of the reason why this is 

 done, viz. because the Cherry being an early flowerer, 

 it is thought by doing so to keep them back in this 

 respect ; but the main object is lost sight of, viz. that 

 little or no sun can get at the roots of the trees, and so 

 the poor, delicately constituted tree is chilled to death 

 sooner or later; and if it lives as a plant no fruit can 

 be expected from it, for of all fruit trees the Cherry 

 requires more sun at the root than any other. 



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Fig. 36. 



Properly speaking, there is no fruit tree (the Currant 

 excepted) that will do well on a cold sunless wall. I 

 am fully convinced of this from my own observation for 

 a period of nearly forty years in both northern and 

 southern counties ; and I have noticed particularly that 

 all are affected alike in such aspects. Lately I was in a 

 garden which was of a cold flat situation, and consisted 

 of a clay shillet soil. Here I observed that a fine Cherry- 

 tree had perished, evidently from the coldness of the 

 soil. Therefore, never plant Cherries on a cold northern 

 or western wall. 



Fig. 37 is an example of a standard Peach. The 



