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BUIST'S FAMILY KITCHEN GARDENER. 



of August. Tree of medium growth, round and pendulous 

 form. The Common Morello is a smaller and inferior variety. 



White Bigarreau, White Heart, and Oxheart of some. — It is 

 not our purpose to decide what fruits belong to these names, 

 whereof so many writers disagree. Our object is to call at- 

 tention to the variety that ripens about the 15th of June, just 

 between the May Duke and the Elton. We cultivate it under 

 the former name. Fruit heart-shaped, of a pale yellowish- 

 white color, with a marbled-red on the side towards the sun. 

 Flesh, when fully ripe, tender and luscious : stone large. Tree 

 regularly formed, and a great bearer when fully established. 



These constitute the best of the Cherries, and such as pro- 

 duce their fruit throughout the season. I am aware of the 

 very high character borne by some of the new sorts, which we 

 have not tested, nor have they been fully tried by others. To 

 enter into a detail of such, would frustrate our object, in di- 

 recting attention only to the best known for family use or the 

 market. 



Culture. — A light, sandy loam, in an open exposure, is the 

 best soil for the Cherry. Though we have them bearing fruit 

 in both wet and dry soils, yet the finest orchards are known to 

 be on a rich, sandy loam, over a gravelly bottom. TTe prefer 

 planting this tree early in Spring : they will require to be 

 twenty-five feet apart. The pruning is of the simplest form, 

 many of the kind rarely requiring the knife, while others, as 

 the Bigarreau. need to have the long, rampant shoots that 

 stretch beyond the boundary of the tree shortened every Sep- 

 tember, till they are formed. 



Propagation — This is done both by budding and grafting. 

 The former is the most general practice of nurserymen, who 

 sow yearly, in August, large quantities of the Common Black 

 Cherry, about one inch deep, which vegetate freely in Spring, 

 and after two years growth are fit to be budded. This is done 

 in August or even the first o^ September, according to the 



