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rlslies. Any good garden-soil is fit for the cherry, and if tlis 

 soil be not of itself good, it may be rendered sufficiently so by 

 the addition of one-third or one-fourth of fresh light loam, 

 such as has been already recommended for the apples. Some 

 sorts, as the May-duke, will thrive in any ordinary garden- 

 soil, and on almost any aspect with equal success. 



Pliuns. — Plums are found to flourish best in a soil neither 

 too light nor yet too heavy and wet; in either extreme they 

 seldom do well. Borders for plums, if not naturally good, 

 may be rendered so by making the bottom perfectly dry, by 

 draining, and making the borders to consist of one half light 

 fresh loam, and one half garden-mould, vegetable mould, and 

 road-scrapings mixed together, and prepared some time before 

 using. In soils not congenial to them, they are apt to gum 

 and canker, in which case they should be cut down and the 

 mould entirely cleared away from their roots, and the fresh 

 compost, already recommended, given them. 



CHAP. V. 



ON THE PROPKIl ARRANGEMENT AND ASPECTS FOR FRUIT- 

 TREES UPON \Vx\LLS, AND THE DISTANCE AT WHICH 

 THEY SHOULD BE PLANTED. 



In gardens where forcing-houses occupy the principal o¥ 

 south aspect, it is seldom that much room is left for a great 

 variety of the sorts of finer fruits, unless the garden be ex- 

 tensive enough, and so arranged, by the disposal of the walls, 

 to have more than one principal wall having a south aspect. 

 In such cases, where there is a proper proportion of walls of 

 all aspects, we would recommend dividing each into as many 

 divisions as it is wished to have sorts of fruits cultivated, ar- 

 ranging the divisions in proportion to the quantity of each sort 

 of fruit and aspect. An arrangement of tnis sort we consider 



