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How CiiERRY-TnEES SHOULD BE GROWN. — Years ago, it was just as easy 

 to raise a good crop of cherries as to raise a good crop of apples. We remem- 

 ber, when a boy, we made good wages picking this fruit at fifty cents the bushel, 

 the trees gave such an abundant crop. Several years ago, a change seemed to 

 come over the cherry-trees. When grown too rapidly, they burst their bark in 

 many places, permitting the gum to exude in abundance ; and, finally, the limb or 

 branch would die. Warts, also, became numerous, and did considerable dam- 

 age ; the curculio began to destroy the cherry as he had already the plum ; and, 

 lastly, a severe drought, followed by a severe winter, seemed to give the finish- 

 ing touch to many of the cherry-trees. The remedy for the first trouble, we 

 believe, is within our reach. We remember, some years ago, a neighbor bought 

 a hundred cherry-trees, and set them out in an orchard, and began to manure, 

 and treated them in this respect as he had done his apple-orchard, which was in 

 a very thriving condition. In a year or two, many of the trees burst their bark, 

 turned black, and parts died ; and this continued until three-fourths of the whole 

 were either dead or nearly so, being quite worthless. It was evident to the 

 farmer that he had killed his trees by kindness : and he stopped manuring, and 

 sowed his land down to grass ; and this saved them. What would do for the 

 apple-tree would not answer for the cherry. We know another orchard, now 

 some years old, that we set out for a neighbor, where the trees have been kept 

 in grass ever since the second year after they were set; and these trees have 

 made a good, sound, healthy growth each year, and latterly, even for ten years 

 past, except a single year, have borne good crops of fruit. There is not a more 

 healthy cherry-orchard in the country. These trees have never suffered by the 

 bursting of the bark, nor from warts. The best trees may be so forced in 

 growth as to become tender and diseased, and in a short time worthless, as 

 Neighbor Jones's trees did. We are perfectly sure that all who have been 

 troubled by diseased cherry-trees, will, if they adopt the plan we have referred 

 to, soon see the beneficial effects of it, and, though they may have to wait longer 

 for fruit, will succeed in saving their trees. 



Notes on some of the Early Apples. — The Early Harvest is one of the 

 best of the early apples, ripening the last of July or the first of August, but, 

 unfortunately, requiring very high culture, and, when not receiving it, growing 

 knobby, and of poor shape. It is of excellent quality, either for cooking or the 

 dessert ; and no garden can afford to be without it. Tree a moderate grower. 



Red Astrachatt. — This is a beautiful red apple, having a bloom like a plum. 

 The fruit generally grows fair and of good size. It is most excellent for cook- 

 ing, but rather acid for the table, though esteemed by many for this purpose. 

 Flesh very white. Tree an upright and good grower. Said to be a native of 

 Sweden. Well worthy of cultivation. 



Early Sweet Bough is one of the earliest and best ; though a sweet apple is 

 not considered so valuable for general purposes as an acid fruit. It is a rich, 

 sweet, and excellent dessert-fruit, yellow when ripe. Ripens in July and August. 

 Tree a moderate grower and good bearer. Fruit generally smooth, and rather 

 large. A desirable variety. 



