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fe£t on Cherrks, as the Taradife 

 Stock hath on uipplesy they may 

 be kept in lefs Compafs, which 

 is an Experiment well worth the 

 Trial. 



Your Trees, if planted againft a 

 Wall, fhould be placed fixteen Feet 

 afunder, with a Standard-Tree be- 

 tween each Dwarf: This will be 

 found a reafonable Diftance, when 

 we conlider that Cherry-trees will 

 not extend themfelves fb far as 

 Apricockst and many other Sorts of 

 Fruit. 



In pruning thefe Sorts of Fruits, 

 you fhould never fhorten their 

 Shoots -y for the moft part of them 

 produce their Fruit-buds at their 

 extreme Part, which, when fhort» 

 ned, are cut off: Their Branches 

 fhould be therefore train'd in at 

 full length horizontally, obferving 

 in May, where there is a Vacancy 

 in the Wall, to flop fbme ftrong 

 adjoining Branch which will occa- 

 lion its putting out two or more 

 Shoots i by which Means, at that 

 Seafon of the Year, you may al- 

 ways get a Supply of Wood for 

 covering the Wall : And at the 

 fame time fhould all fore-right 

 Shoots be difplac'd by the Hand i 

 for if they are fufFer'd to grow 

 'till Winter, they will not only 

 deprive the Bearing- Branches of 

 their proper Supply of Nourifli- 

 ment, but, when they are cut out, 

 it occafions the Tree to Gum in 

 that Part ■■, (for Cherries bear the 

 Knife the worft of any Sort of 

 Fruit-Trces) : but be careful not to 

 rub off the Fides or Spurs, which 

 are produced upon the two and 

 three Years old Wood ; for it is 

 upon thefc that the greatefl Part 

 of the Fruit are produc'dj which 

 Fides will continue fruitful for 

 feveral Years. And it is for want 

 oi duly obferving this Caution, 



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that Cherry-trees are often feen £6 

 unfruitful, efpecially the Morello, 

 which, the more it is cut, the 

 weaker it {hoots ; and at laft, by 

 frequent pruning, I have known a 

 whole Wall of them deftroy'd ; 

 which, if they had been fuffer'd 

 to grow without any pruning, 

 might probably have liv'd many 

 Years, and produc'd large Quanti- 

 ties of Fruit. 



Cherry-trees are alfo planted for 

 Orchards in many Parts of England^ 

 particularly in Kent, where there 

 are large Plantations of thefe Trees : 

 The uflial Diftance allow'd for 

 their {landing, is forty Feet fquare, 

 at which Space they are lefs fub- 

 )eOi to Blight, than when they are 

 clofer planted i and the Ground 

 may be tiil'd between them almoft 

 as well as if it were intirely clear, 

 efpecially while the Trees are young i 

 and the often flirring the Ground, 

 provided you do not diflurb theii* 

 Roots, will greatly help the Trees ; 

 but when they are grown {o big 

 as to' overfhadow the Ground, the 

 Drip of their Leaves will fuffer 

 very few Things to thrive under 

 them. Thefe Standard Trees fhould 

 be planted in a Situation defended 

 as much as poffible from the ftrong 

 Wefterly Winds, which are very apt 

 to break their tender Branches ; 

 this occaiions their Gumming, and 

 is very prejudicial to them. 



The Sorts beft approv'd for an 

 Orchard, are the Common Red or 

 KentiJ}} Cherry, the Duke, and Luke- 

 ward, all which are plentiful Bear- 

 ers. But Orchards of thefe Trees 

 are now fcarcely Worth planting, 

 except where Land is very cheap j 

 for the Uncertainty of their Bear- 

 ing, with the Trouble in Gather- 

 ing the Fruit, together with the 

 fmall Price it commonly yields* 

 have occafion'd the deftroying many 



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