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BIGAREBAU AND HEART CHERRIES AS 

 PYRAMIDS ON THE COMMON CHEERY 

 STOCK 



The Bigarreau and tlie Heart cherries (or, as the 

 French call them, Guignes) do not succeed so well on 

 the Cerasus Mahaleb as they do on the common cherry ; 

 they grow most rapidly for two or three years, and then 

 are apt to become 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 cherry trees may be 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 pears (pages 5 and 6), with this 

 variation — -pears, it is well known, may be grown as 

 pyramids successfully, with or without root-pruning or 

 biennial removal ; but cherries on common cherry stocks 

 will grow so rapidly, in spite of summer pinching, that 

 biennial removal is a work of necessity. In the course 

 of a few years, pyramidal cherry trees thus treated 

 become pictures of beauty. In France they generally 

 fail, and become full of dead stumps and gum, owing 

 to their trusting entirely to pruning their trees severely 

 in summer and winter, without attending to their roots ; 

 the trees thus being full of vigour make strong shoots, 

 only to be pinched and cut off. We must ' manage 

 these things better ' in England. 



