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succeeds best in June, and the stocks should be planted on the 

 margins of walks or other open airy situations. In Belgian 

 nurseries it is bud-grafted with a bud just commencing to grow, 

 crown-grafted, or side-grafted with a simple branch. Scions or 

 grafts should be moderately hard at the base half woody, in 

 fact and these after being inserted should be shaded with a 

 brown -paper cap. The Mahaleb (or St Lucie Cherry) is 

 well adapted for dry soils, and should be budded near the 

 ground. There are both weeping and variegated forms of 

 the Mahaleb, and these should be grafted or budded on 

 the common green form as a stock at any desired height. 

 Black Cherry, Red Cherry, and other stocks are raised from 

 seed (stones) or by " hillock layering." Suckers should not be 

 used if seedlings can be had. A very distinct and hardy 

 variety of the Morello, known as the " Dyehouse Cherry," is 

 grown in America, and is said to fruit when other kinds fail 

 through spring frosts (see 'Garden,' 1872, p. 321). The 

 double-blossomed Cherry, one of our finest spring-flowering 

 ornamental trees, is a form of C. vulgaris, and does well grafted 

 on any of the common Cherry stocks. The Cherry grows and 

 fruits well grafted or budded on the common Laurel, but this 

 stock possesses no advantage over the common Gean or wild 

 Black Cherry stock except in being more common ; still it is 

 always as well to know on what stocks a tree will grow, as it 

 may serve when others are not to hand. This is one of the 

 very few instances known where a deciduous scion has suc- 

 ceeded on an evergreen stock. 



The Chinese double-flowering Cherry (C. serrulatd) forms a 

 tree 6-8 feet high, flowering in April, its flowers being larger 

 than those of the common kind. Easily propagated by bud- 

 ding or grafting on seedling Cherry stocks. 



C. Lannesiana is an ornamental tree of the highest merit, 

 combining, when in flower, the effect of the delicate tinge of 

 rosy Apple-blossoms with the freer grace of the longer and 

 slenderer shoots and the brighter foliage of. the Cherry-tree. 

 The best mode of propagating it is by grafting it on the wild 

 Cherry, either by cleft-grafting or by budding. M. Carriere, to 

 whom we are indebted for the foregoing account, considers it 

 probable that this is the type of Cerasus Sieboldii. 



Seedling Cherries. 



Early Rivers. This is an excellent variety, bearing large 

 black fruits, which ripen very early. It was raised by Mr 

 Rivers from a stone of the " Early Purple Guigne ; " and 



