CHERRIES. 



but as the former of these are more generally raised from 

 buds than from grafts, they will at first require a dif- 

 ferent treatment, namely, that of heading them down 

 the first year. On this account they ought never to 

 be planted later than the end of October, or the 

 middle of November : this early planting will enable 

 the trees to make fresh roots previously to the spring, 

 when, in April, as soon as the buds begin to break out, 

 they should be headed down to within three or four 

 inches of the place where they had been budded. If the 

 trees be good, there will be a sufficient number of eyes 

 to produce as many shoots as will be required to furnish 

 the head: should more than four be produced, they 

 should be reduced to this number, of such as are the 

 best placed. These must be allowed to extend at length 

 without being shortened, nothing further being required 

 than to cut out superfluous shoots, so as to keep the 

 head uniform and handsome. If the heads of young 

 trees be carefully attended to the first three or four 

 years, they will rarely get into confusion afterwards ; 

 they must, nevertheless, be looked over frequently, as 

 shoots are occasionally produced, through a local injury 

 of the branch, which may require to be removed. 



Espalier cherries, and those trained against the wall, 

 require precisely the same management, both as to 

 pruning and training. For this purpose, trees which 

 have been grafted are always to be preferred to those 

 which have been raised from buds : they must be cut 

 back at the commencement, as directed for Apricots ; 

 but the branches, except in Morellos, must be trained 

 horizontally instead of obliquely, and always continued 

 at their full length. In Dukes and Hearts the branches 

 should be eight or nine inches apart, beginning at the 

 bottom of the tree, and continuing each additional shoot 

 in a parallel direction, till the number of series the wall 

 will permit be completed. 



