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Standards are budded on the Mazzard stock, and the others on the Mahaileb, or St. Lucie, 
the latter serves the same purpose for the cherry that the quince does for the pear, and 
the paradise for the apple. It makes the trees smaller and more prolific, and besides it 
may be root-pruned, like an apple or pear tree, in cases of superabundant vigor of growth. 
It will also flourish on many soils not adapted to the Mazzard stock. Our trees are grown 
upon dry and moderately rich soil, consequently the wood is well ripened and will bear 
transplanting into any climate. It should be understood that cherry trees forced into an 
excessive growth, by damp soils or powerful manures, cannot even stand the winter in the 
nursery with safety, while transplanting is almost certain death to them. Purchasers will 
do well to consider this, 
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_ Theabove drawing is from a specimen tree in our grounds, about ten years old, on the Mahaleb stock, trained 
in pyramidal form. We can recommend this mode of training for all Garden Cherry Trees, as superior in all 
respects to the old Standard form, requiring long ladders to reach the top, either to prune or gather the fruit. 
The trunk of the tree is always protected by the branches, and avoids the accidents and diseases which, in the 
Standard form, they never escape. No trees in our grounds have been more admired during the past seven or 
eight years than our Pyramid Cherries. The Mahaleb stock readily adapts itself to almost every variety of soil,. 
which the Mazzard cannot do. 
