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■arc intended for Dwarfs: But if 

 they are for Standards, they will 

 not be tall enough until the fourth 

 Year; for they fliould be budded 

 or grafted near fix Feet from the 

 Ground; for otherwifc the Graft 

 will not advance much in Height, 

 fo that it will be impoflible to 

 make a good Tree from fuch as 

 are grafted low. 



The ufual Way with the Nur- 

 fery Gardeners, is to bud their 

 Stocks in Summer: And fuch of 

 them as mifcarry, they graft the 

 fucceeding Spring. ('The manner 

 of thefe Operations will be de- 

 fcribed under their proper Heads). 

 Thofe Trees where the Buds have 

 taken, muft be headed off in the 

 Beginning of March^ about fix 

 Inches above the Bud : And when 

 the Bud hath fliot in Summer, if 

 you fear its being blown out by 

 the Winds, you may faften it up 

 with fbme Bafs, or fuch foft-tying, 

 to that Part of the Stock which 

 was left above the Bud. The Au- 

 tumn following thefe Trees will 

 be fit to remove. But if your 

 Ground is not ready to receive 

 them, they may remain two Years 

 before they are tranfplanted : In 

 the doing of which, you muft ob- 

 ferve, not to head them, as is by 

 many pradlis'd ; tor this, very of- 

 ten, is immediate Death to them: 

 But if they furvive it, they feldom 

 recover this Amputation in five or 

 iix Years. 



If thefe Trees are intended for a 

 Wall, I would advife the planting 

 Dwarfs between the Standards ; fo 

 that while the Dwarfs are filling 

 the Bottom of the Walls, the Stan- 

 dards will cover the Tops, and will 

 produce a great deal of Fruit : But 

 thefe, as the Dv/arfs arife to fill 

 the Walls, muft be cut away, to 

 make room for them ; And when 



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the Dwarf-trees do cover the Wal?5^ 

 the Standards ihould be mxkdf 

 taken away. But I advife, neverto 

 plant Standard-Cherries over other 

 Fruits ; for there is no other Sort 

 of Fruit that will profper well un= 

 der the Drip of Cherries. 



When thefe Trees are taken up 

 from the Nurfery, their Roots 

 muft be fhortned, and all the bruifed 

 Parts cut off, as alfo all the fmall 

 Fibres, which would dry, grow 

 mouUy, and be a great Prejudice 

 to the new Fibres in their coming 

 forth ; you muft alio cut off the 

 dead Part of the Stock which was 

 left above the Bud, clofe down to 

 the back-part of it, that the Stock 

 may be covcr'd. If thefe Trees 

 are defign'd for a Wall, obferve to 

 place the Bud diredly from the 

 Wall, that the back-part of the 

 Stock that was cut may be hid 

 from Sight. The Soil thar Cherries 

 thrive beft in, is a frefh Haz.el Loami 

 But if the Soil is a dry Gravel, 

 they will not live many Years, and 

 will be perpetually blighted in the 

 Spring. 



The Sorts commonly planted 

 againft Walls, are the JEarly May, 

 and May-Duke, which fhould have 

 a South-Wall The Hearfs and 

 common Duke v^rill do upon a Weft- 

 Wall i and the Morello on a North- 

 Wall, which laft is' chiefiy planted 

 for prefer ving ; but if fome of the 

 Morello's be planted againft a South- 

 Wall they will produce larger, and 

 well tafted Fruir. The Hearts are 

 all of them ill Bearers j for which 

 Reafon they are {eldom planted 

 againft Walls : But I am apt to 

 believe, if they were grafted upon 

 the Bird- Cherry, and manag'd pro- 

 perly, that Defe6r mlghtr be re- 

 medy 'd ; for this Stock (as 1 am 

 inform'd) will render Cherries very 

 fruitful i and having the iame FX- 



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