CHERRIES. 121 
Black Eagle, the Black Heart, Bowyer’s Early Heart, Car- 
nation, Downton, Florence, and the White Heart. 
What are called geans or guignes are cherries less 
removed from their natural state. The trées are generally 
treated as standards, and bear abundantly, particularly 
when old. The principal sorts.are the Amber gean, a 
plentiful bearer, with sweet tender fruit; and the Lundie 
gean, bearing a small black cherry of high flavor. This 
variety originated at the ancient seat of the Erskines in 
Forfarshire, but is sometimes called the Polton gean, from 
a place near Lasswade, in Mid-Lothian. 
It may be noticed that, in the Jardin des Plantes, at 
Paris, the black-fruited cherry-tree, or Gutgnicr, is con- 
sidered as a variety of Prunus Cerasus. The forest cherry- 
tree, P. avium, is named Merisier; and, besides varieties 
with red and with black fruit, there is a marked variety 
called Bigarotier. - 
The stock preferred for cherries is the wild gean. Mr. 
Lindley recommend that dwarf cherry trees should be 
grafted, and two or three year old stocks will do for them. . 
For standard trees the stocks should be at least four years 
old, and they should be budded or grafted five or six feet 
from the ground. High stemmed cherry trees, or riders, 
are often temporarily employed to fill up the vacant spaces 
on newly-planted south walls till the dwarf trees make 
sufficient progress; for-these, stocks six or seven feet high 
are required. For dwarf cherry trees, the best stocks are 
procured from the Prunus (or Cer‘asus) Mahaleb, the sweet- 
scented cherry. 
Cherries are generally produced on small spurs which 
appear on the wood of the second year, and these spurs 
continue productive for an indefinite period. Any form of 
training may therefore be puta ; but, as the fruit is 
