32 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



Flemish Heart, South's large Black, 



Gross Goblet, Swedish Black Hearty 



Holman's Duke, Tradescant's, 



Jeffrey's Royal, Turkey Heart, 



Kensington Duke, Weeping, 



Large Spanish Cherry, Wentworth Heart, 



Late Large Morello," White Heart. 

 Montmorency, 



Proper Kinds of Cherries for a small Garden, 



The May Duke, the Large Duke Cherry, Archduke, the. 

 Black Heart, Harrison's Heart, Ox Hearty Turkey Hearty 

 and Kensington Duke Cherry. 



Planting,. Pruning, and Training of Cherry-Trees. 



In the choosing and planting of young cherry-trees, the 

 same rules are to be observed as are given for Apricots-^ 

 Peaches, and Nectarines ; and they must in like manner be 

 headed down the first year. 



In pruning cherries, never shorten their shoots ; for 

 most of them produce their fruit at the extremities, the short- 

 ening, or cutting-off of which very frequently occasions the 

 death of the shoot, at least of a great part of it. The 

 branches, therefore, should be trained at full length.^ I have 

 often seen the whole tree killed by injudicious pruning^ 

 Wherever the knife is applied, it is sure to bring on the gum, 

 and afterwards the canker, which will inevitably kill the tree 

 if no remedy be applied to the wounds. 



I have headed down a great many cherry-trees which 

 were almost past bearing, and so eaten up with the gum and 

 canker, that what few cherries they bore upon old cankered 

 spurs were not fit to be sent to the table* 



In the years 1790 and 1791 I cut, or headed down, fifty 

 trees. The operation was performed in the months of April 

 and May (in May for America) in each year. These trees 

 made shoots from three to five feet the same summer, bore fine 

 cherries the next yeai', and have continued to bear good crops 

 ever since. 



To the above trees I applied the composition. At the 

 same time I cut down twelve trees in the same row, but did not 

 apply the composition : These twelve trees all died in the se- 

 cond and third years after. We now gather more cherries, 

 from one tree where the composition was applied, than we did 

 from the whole number formerly; being also much finer and 

 larger fruit. 



