92 THE MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN. 



discovered by the fruit-cultivator. ]\Iany kinds of 

 pcfii-B grow with great luxuriance when grafted or 

 budded on the quince stock, wliile otlier kinds, culti- 

 vuteil in the same soil, and budded or grafted with 

 equal care, will grow feebly, and die iu tlie course of 

 a year or twi i. 



The Noblesse and Tloyal Goorire peaches form fine 

 healthy trees when budded on the iluscle plum stock. 

 The (Trosso Mignonne and the French Galande die in 

 a year or two, if budded on it. The Moor Park apri- 

 cot grows readily and freely on the above-named stock. 

 The peach apricot, its French coiipener, wUl not ; 

 why ? The Bigarreau and the Heart cherries (or, as 

 the French call them, (Tiii^iics) do ruit suiceed well 

 on the Cerasns ^lahaleb ; they grow most rajiidly for 

 two or tlireo years, and then generally 1 leeorae gummy 

 and diseased. 



The stock raised from the small black and red wild 

 cherries is the proper one for this race, except they 

 are double grafted. 



Pyramidal elierry trees maybe bought ready-made, 

 or formed by purchasing young trees, one year old, 

 from the bud, and training them up in the same way 

 as directed for pyramidal peai-s (pp. -t and o\ with 

 this variation — pears, as is well known, may be gro'mi 

 as pyramids successfully, with or m ithout root-prun- 

 ing ur bit'iinial leinoval ; but cherries on common 

 clierry stocks will grow su rapidly, in s]iite of suimncr 

 pinching, tliat biennial removal is a work of necessity. 

 Ill tlie course tit' a few yeai-s, pyramidal cherry tret>s 

 thus treated heeome pictures of beauty. In Franco 

 they generally fail, and become lull of dead stumps 



