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planted in warm vallies and soils it should have the northern ex- 

 posure to prevent too early blossoming. 



Propagation. — Bud on the Elack mazzard. Prepare the seeds 

 of the Black mazzard for raising stocks ; place the cherries in a 

 pile to decay ; wash off the pulp ; plant the seeds in a nursery in 

 drills ] cover them one inch deep ; they will vegetate in the fol- 

 lowing spring, and be fit to plant out in nursery rows, twelve 

 inches apart, in autumn or in the next spring. In the following 

 August bud them, separate the small from the large stocks, put 

 them in separate rows. Our cherries are generally with us as 

 standards. In good soils the buds will make stocks six or eight 

 feet high in one season. For dwarf trees, the Morello seedlings 

 are used for stocks ; for very dwarfed trees, the perfumed cherry 

 (cerasus mahaleb) is used. Dwarfs must be headed back in the 

 nursery in the second year, to secure lateral shoots. As to cul- 

 tivation, the cherry trees require but little. Manure old trees 

 slightly ; prune out too thick heads or dead and crossing branches, 

 but only when it is really necessary; prune always in midsum- 

 mer, for tliat is the only season when the gum is not exuded. It 

 is not a very long lived tree ; averages 30 or 40 years. The train- 

 ing of it is not much in use here. The Heart and the Bigarreau 

 are the only kinds trained, and those horizontally. The proper 

 distance between the trees sliould be 20 feet for strong trees, and 

 18 for the slow growing kinds. Trained cherry trees are cut off 

 twice in each season, in May and July. When bark bound wash 

 them with Rennies' mixture — 1 lb. soda to a gallon of 'water. The 

 mixture ascends the capillary vessels, and is much aided by the 

 motion given to trees and plants by wind. A rattan with one 

 end placed in water and then bent to and fro raises the water to 

 its top. 



[Portsmonth Journal, March 8, 1852.] 



A recent discovery has given to commerce and household con- 

 sumption, a cheap and effectual agent for deodorising and disin- 

 fecting localities, where the disagreeable exhalations of ammonia 

 and sulphuretted hydrogen prevails, such as sick chambers, yards, 

 manufactories, privies, &c. The article is a kind of peat found 

 at Cape Elizabeth, four miles from Portland, Maine, which con- 



