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‘March. in others the Series are much more numerous, and | Black. With sood Management, a budded Stock March. 
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the Flower fo full that it becomes globular. This 
is the moft elegant State. 
The Colour is. a perfeét white; and when the | 
full Head of a fmall Standard Tree is profufely 
covered. with them, it appears at fome :Diftance 
~and the nearer it is view'd the 
Each Flower ftands on its own Footftalk, 
which is tender, and of a pale green, ftain’d with 
red. Many of thefe rife together, and the whole 
Clufter is very elegant. No Fruit follows. 
Nature, exhaufted by this Redundancy of the 
Petals, purfues her Courfe no farther. An Ac- 
cident may leave a Fruit on fome Chance Bough ; 
but the natural Refult is Barrennefs. 
Speaking ‘of the Cherry in its double State, |. 
we mutt refer the Student to the common Bloffom ‘| 
of our Fruiting-Trees, to find the Characters. 
He will perceive in that a -valt Clufter of Fila- 
ments rifing from. the Cup, and crown’d with 
_. doubled Buttons. _ 
) Petals. 
He finds from this the Tree is one of the co-— 
fandria, and, by its fingle Style, ula it is of the 
Monogynia. 
The Cup is form’d of a fingle Piece, hollow’d | 
and divided at the Rim into five Segments. The 
Body of the F ee 1s es Dath of five broad 
The Fruit needs no Defcription; roundifh, 
- juicy; and, in a hard Stoné, containing a fingle 
~ there is not any Shrub of all the F lowering Kinds | | 
- Kernel. 
Culture of the DousiE-BLossom’p CHERRY. 
The Propagation of the Double Cherry mutt } 
be by budding: upon the common wild Red Cherry | 
Stock: and it is very well worth the Care; for | 
_ fuperior to it in Beauty. 
that As too ftrong a Shooter. 
fends out more and fhorter Branches. 
_ This therefore would in itfelf be more proper 
for forming a fmall Tree with a tufted Head , 
and this the Gardener is to obferve here, and on 
all other Occafions, in Repeats of Grafting and | . 
Budding. 
- Altho’ the Wood form’d Sermuele be of / 
Nature of that from whence the Bud or Graft 
was taken, the Root remains the fame as in the 
- wild State of the Stock, and fo do the Veffels of 
the adopted Parts. 
and: in no Point fo ftrictly obferved as in| 
the remaining Part of the Trunk. Thefe receive 
and tranfmit the Nourifhment in their original 
Way; and this will influence the fhooting even of 
Let this Rule be univerfal : 
this. 
Experience fhews alfo another Advantage; the 
Red Cherry Stock is more durable than the 
the Bark is fmooth and fine. 
| of the Knife; 
Some ufe the common Black Cherry Stock: for | be too much to go into the Slit, ic muft be cut 
‘this Purpofe, but it is a wrong Practice, for. 
The Red Cherry | 
Tree, in its wild State, grows to lefs Height, and 
| the Rind ; 
| foak’d in Water. 
and. even, but the Eye of the Bud not crufh’d 
| or cover'd. 
of this will at in a few Years, a well headed 
Tree, and laft without End. 
Thefe Stocks are to be rais’d in a Nurfery-bed 
from Kernels; and when they have been two 
Years planted out they will be fit to bud. 
This is the beft Method of propagating the 
double flower’d Kind; but it is the moft uncer- 
tain: however, the Danger is not much; for as~ 
Summer is the Seafon for Budding, if that fail, 
they may be grafted afterwards in Spring. 
In the Beginning of uly take off fome Cut- 
tings from a very fine double-bloffom’d Cherry 
Loree, and chufe them from the healthieft Branches, 
| and fuch as are moft full of Flowers. - 
Look carefully over the Stock for a Part where 
In this Place cut 
it,a-crofs to a good Length, and then, from the 
Middle of this Cro’ cut, make a Slit downwards, 
half a Finger’s Length. The Knife us’d for this 
-Purpofe, fhould have a fhort, firm, and fharp Blade, 
and a fmooth flat Handle. 
Care muft be taken, 
in both thefe Cuts, to go thro” the Bark perfeét- 
ly, and not to wound the Stalk. | 
Take the Leaf, from the Bud, but leave the 
Footttalk remaining ; and make a Cut in this 
crofs-wife, a Finger’s Breadth below the Eye: 
| then with the Knife flit off the Bud, with Part of 
|} the “Wood ; 
and take away that Part of the 
Wood that was left with the Bud. This muft be 
done with Care, to prevent the Eye from being 
loft, which often happens in the ftripping. in 
fuch Cafe the Bud is to be thrown away, and ano-. 
ther chofen, proceeding with more Care, and 
leaving the Bud unhurt in its Place. a 
~The Bud thus prepar’d, is fit for Uf. The 
Bark. of the Stock muft be rais’d clear from the 
Wood, _and the Bud thus prepar’d let in. 
The Bark on be rais’d with the. flat Handle 
and if the Rind left to the Bud 
away. 
See that the Bud falls clofe and even | the 
Wood of the Stock, and that it be well fecur’d by 
then tye it round with fome old Bafs, 
The whole muf be bound clofe 
If the Bud has not been well join’d to the 
Stock, or if its Hye have been torn out with the 
Wood, or hurt in the ftripping, it will decay in 
about three Weeks; fo that fuch as continue 
plump and healthy at the End of that Time, 
may all be confider’d as good ones. ‘The Tyeing 
is at this Time to be loofen’d; and this is the 
whole Operation. 
The Spring following, the Head of the Stack 
is to be cut off at about a Hand’s Breadth above 
the Bud, and the Tree will flourifh. A Shoot 
will be made from the Bud, which muft be gent- 
ly ty’d up to the Head of the Stock, to fecure it 
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