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Your Trees, if planted againir. a 

 Wall, fhould be placed eighteen or 

 twenty Feet afunder, with a Stand- 

 ard-tree between each Dwarf: this 

 will be found a reasonable Diitance, 

 when we confider, that Cherry-trees 

 will extend themfelves as far as 

 Apricots, and many other Sorts of 

 Fruit. 



In pruning thefe Sorts of Fruits, 

 you fhould never fhorten their 

 Shoots ; for the mod part of them 

 produce their Fruit- buds at their ex- 

 treme Part, which, when fhortened, 

 are cut off: their Branches fhould 

 be therefore train'd in at full Length 

 horizontally ; obferving in May, 

 where there is a Vacancy in the 

 Wall, to flop fome ftrong adjoining 

 Branches, which will occafion its 

 putting out two or more Shoots ; by 

 which means, at that Seafon of the 

 Year, you- may always get a Supply 

 of Wood for covering the Wall -. and 

 at the fame time fhould all fore- 

 right Shoots be djfplac'd by the 

 Hand ; for if they are futier'd to 

 grow till Winter, they will not only 

 deprive the bearing Branches of their 

 proper Supply of Nourifhment, but 

 when they are cut out, it occafions 

 the Tree to gum in that Part (for 

 Cherries bear the Knife the worft of 

 any Sort of Fruit-trees) ; but be 

 careful not to rub off the Fida or 

 Spurs, which pre produced upon the 

 two and three Years old Wood ; for 

 it is upon thefe that the greateii Part 

 of the Fruit are produced ; which 

 Fides will continue fruitful for many 

 Years. And it is for want of duly 

 obferving this Caution, that Cherry- 

 trees are often feen ib unfruitful, 

 cfpecially the Morello ; which, the 

 more it is cut, the weaker it moots ; 

 *nd at laft, by frequent pruning, I 

 have known a whole Wall of them 

 deltroyed ; which, if they had been 

 fdfter'd to £row without any Prune- 



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ing, might probably have liVdmany 

 Year-, and produc'd large Quanti- 

 ties of Fruit. 



Cherry-trees are alfo planted for 

 Orchards in many Parts of England^ 

 particularly in Kent, where there are 

 large Plantations of thefe Trees. 

 The ufual Diitance allow'd for their 

 (landing is forty Feet fquare, at 

 which Space they are lefs fubjedt to 

 Blight, than when they are clofer 

 planted ; and the Ground may be 

 till'd between them almoft as well as 

 if it were intirely clear, efpecially 

 while the Trees are young ; and the 

 often flirring the Ground, provided 

 you do not dillurb their Roots, will 

 greatly help the Trees : but when 

 they are grown fo big as to over- 

 fhadow the Ground, the Drip of 

 their Leaves will fuffer very few- 

 Things to thrive under them. Thefe 

 Standard-trees fhould be planted in 

 a Situation defended as much as pof- 

 iible from the ltrongWeftcrly Winds, 

 which are very apt to break their 

 tender Branches : this occafions their 

 gumming, and is very prejudicial to 

 them. 



The Sorts bell approved for an 

 Orchard, are the common Red, or 

 Kentijh Cherry, the Duke, and Luke- 

 ward ; aUwhich are plentiful Bear- 

 ers. But Orchards of thefe Trees 

 are now fcarcely worth planting, ex- 

 cept where Land is very cheap ; for 

 the Uncertainty of their Bearing, 

 with the Trouble in gathering the 

 Fruit, together with the fmall Price 

 it commonly yields, hath occafion'd 

 the deilroying many Orchards of this 

 Fruit in Kent, within a few Years 

 paft. 



This Fruit was brought out of 

 Pontus, at the time of the Mithrida- 

 tic Victory, by Lucullus, in the Year 

 of Rome 680. and were brought in- 

 to Britain about 1 20 Years after- 

 wards, which was An. Dc?n. 55. and 



