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lings from pits of the previous year's fallen fruits : these he takes up with 

 his trowel carefully, and transplants to his garden-nursery, where they grow 

 two to three years, and are again transplanted to the permanent orchard, 

 where they are fruited, and such as are proved unprofitable are budded, or 

 ingrafted with some known valuable kind. Where the sweet cherry is a 

 success on its own roots, and the owner has time and enthusiasm to meet 

 the delay, this is a good way ; but when the planter wants to realize as soon 

 as possible, or when the trees must be worked on morello-roots to insure 

 their success, it is better to purchase the first plantation of trees from a 

 nurseryman, and afterwards bud and graft as time and inclination serve. 



I have said the cherry can be grown successfully nearly everywhere ; but, 

 while such is the fact, it is also true that the tree must be worked on the 

 roots of the morello to insure that success. I so said and wrote twenty- 

 six years ago; but as it was more difficult to work on morello than mahaleb, 

 as stocks were not as easily obtainable, and trees did not show as large 

 at one year old, the advice was not popular : but, at the recent meeting, 

 that most intelligent body of fruit-growers, the Illinois State Horticul- 

 tural Society, stated plainly that the morello is the only stock from 

 which to look for success in cherry-growing ; and I think the practice will 

 now be popular. Let any one, who has been unsuccessful in cherry-grow- 

 ing, work his varieties on seedling morello-stocks, and grow his trees mod- 

 erately, — not with extra stimulants, — and he will be able to gather plenty 

 of fruit in four years from the setting of the bud. 



In connection with this assertion, that the cherry can be grown nearly 

 everywhere, the planter for market-purposes should remember, that, as with 

 every thing else, there is always a best side ; and that there is more certainty 

 of permanent, steady, profitable returns from an orchard well located as 

 regards altitude and soil, than from one not in the most favorable position. 

 Remember one thing more : which is, let the planter select varieties likely 

 to meet the tastes of the people whose appetites he expects to appease, 

 and whose money he intends to receive. 



In some markets, the dark or black cherries command one-eighth to one- 

 sixth more price than the light colors ; in others, it is the reverse : but, in 

 all cases where the fruit has to be transported miles in reaching its con- 

 suming customers, black or dark fruit will be found best, because it can be 



