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Cherries, I have brought them to bear in the 

 same manner ; that is, I leave a great many fore- 

 right shoots in Summer, and tuck them in with 

 some small rods run across under the adjoining 

 branches, to keep them close to the wall, and 

 prevent them from being broken by the wind, 

 and from looking unsightly. 



Never make use of the knife in Summer *, 

 if it be possible to avoid it, as the shoots die 

 from the place where they are cut, leaving ugly 

 dead stubs, which will infallibly bring on the 

 cankei'. These shoots may be cut in the Spring 

 to about a couple of eyes, as Duke Cherries, 

 which will form a number of flower-buds, a& 

 appears in Plate IV. Fig, 1. — Fig, 2. is an old 

 branch, to show the manner in which the spurs 

 are formed when the old method of pruning is 

 followed, and the barren unproductive state of 

 the tree. 



As Cherries are a very considerable article of 

 traffic in the London markets, and the markets 

 of most towns throughout the kingdom, employ- 



♦ As Morello Cherries bear their fruit on the second year's 

 wood, from two to five in a cluster, and not on spurg^ as other 

 cherries do, the strongest and cleanest wood should be laid in 

 at full length in the Summer, and all superfluous shoots be 

 rubbed off, leaving a regular supply to fill up the walls. They 

 should be pruned and nailed at the same time with other 

 Cherries, either in Autumn or in the month of March ; but we 

 prefer Spring pruning. 



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