7^ OF CHERRIES. 



ing such a great number of people during the 

 Summer season in gathering, carrying to market, 

 and selling them, the raising of them is certainly 

 worth any gentleman's while, especially as the 

 trees may be rendered ornamental as well as 

 profitable, by planting them in shrubberies, &c. * 

 Gentlemen of small fortune, who are at a great 

 expence with their gardens and plantations, may 

 in a great measure re-imburse themselves by 

 selling their Cherries and other fruit (for which 

 there will be plenty of chapmen), and thus enjoy 

 at an easy rate the pleasures of a rational and 

 useful recreation. 



In all parts of the country there are persons 

 employed in collecting fruit for the Markets, 

 and to hawk it about from place to place ; and 

 surely it is much better to sell it to them, than 

 to let it rot on the ground, or be devoured by 

 birds and insects. 



When Cherry-trees begin to produce spurs, cut 

 out every other shoot to make the tree throw out 

 fresh wood ; when that comes into a bearing state, 

 which will be in the following year, cut out the 

 old branches that remain ; by that method you 

 will be able to keep the trees in a constant state 



* At Aslited park, the seat of Richard Bagot Howard, Esq. 

 near Epsom, there is a Cherry-tree between fifty and sixty feet 

 high ; and at four feet from the ground, nine feet six inches 

 in circumference. This tree, with many others of the same 

 kind, was planted several years after the Chesnuts mentioned 

 in Chap. XX. 



