6s OF CHERRIES. 



fore, should be trained at full length. I have often 

 Seen the whole tree killed by injudicious pruning. 

 Wherever the knife is applied, it is sure to bring 

 on the gum, and afterwards the canker, which will 

 inevitably kill the tree if no remedy be applied to 

 the wounds. 



I have headed down a great many Cherry-trees 

 which were almost past bearing, and so eaten up 

 with the gum and canker, that what few Cherries 

 they bore upon old cankered spurs were not fit to 

 be sent to the table. 



In the years 1790 and 1791, I cut, or beaded 

 down, fifty trees. The operation was performed 

 in the months of April and May in each year. 

 These trees made shoots from three to five feet 

 the same summer, bore fine Cherries the next 

 year, and have continued to bear good crops ever 

 since. 



To the above trees I applied the composition. 

 At the same time I cut down twelve trees in the 

 same row, but did not apply the Composition : 

 these twelve trees all died in the second and third 

 years after. We now gather more Cherries from 

 one tree w^here the Composition was applied, than 

 we did from the whole number formerly j being 

 also much finer and larger fruit. 



When Cherry-trees are very old, and much in- 

 jured by large limbs having been cut off (which 

 will infallibly bring on the canker and gum, and if 

 no remedy be applied, in a short time kill the 

 trees) *, or if there are great spurs left standing a 



