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that delight in a dry soil, so planted, become weak, unfruitful and 

 diseased ; while those naturally aquatic, are unfavorably affected, 

 in a dry soil. Too much heat or moisture render plants barren 

 from the impossibility of self-fructification." 



I consider location, having proper regard to the quality of the 

 soil as to richness, the most important consideration in planting 

 the cherry. In my own experience, I have observed the striking 

 difference in the thriftiness and growth of trees only a few yards 

 apart, as affected by varying degrees of moisture or fertility of 

 the soil. Two years ago, finding some young cherry-trees were 

 too closely planted and would probably crowd each other in a few 

 years, I removed the alternate trees in several rows and set them 

 over among some apple seedling nursery trees, which I was in- 

 tending to remove to the orchard. Although using much care in 

 the removal of these trees, and supposing they would go right on 

 growing as they had in their first location, I found, after standing 

 in their new place one year, they did not grow any and some bare- 

 ly kept alive. During the last season I have dug around those 

 trees and dressed them with a compost of old barn-yard manure 

 and good loam, and I expect them to show good results of this 

 treatment next summer. While alluding to this example of plant- 

 ing young nursery trees where the soil has been sapped by other 

 trees, I will warn all fruit growers to be sure and have the soil 

 well prepared for the reception of young nursery trees, so that 

 they may speedily commence a new growth of roots and acquire 

 stimulus from the soil to n»ake a good growth of wood the first 

 season after planting. 



Propagation and Cultivation. 



Since, from the facts and opinions already adduced, it is seen 

 that the cherry is peculiarly well adapted to cultivation in our own 

 latitude, and that special reasons for encouragement to cherry 

 lovers exist, spite of blight and the ill-founded belief of many per- 

 sons in the impracticability of all attempts to raise them to profit, 

 let us consider the best means of propagating and cultivating this 

 fruit 



" The finer sorts of cherries are generally propagated by budding 

 on seedlings of the common Black Mazzard, on account of its 

 healthy, free-growing habit. To raise these stocks the nursery- 

 man takes the stones as soon as they are separated from the fruit 

 and dries them only enough to prevent mouldiness, and then mixes 



