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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



improved by being forced, and generally is a better bearer than 

 any of those which produce their fruit upon artificial spurs ; 

 and from the natural character of this tree, (it bearing its fruit 

 upon the young wood of last year's growth,) it is capable of a 

 mode of training more suitable to the confined space of a 

 forcing-house than any other. 



Cherries are sometimes planted permanently in a house, 

 and trained to trellises, and often as standards planted in rows 

 in the middle of the house ; planting the tallest plants at the 

 back, and the dwarfest next the front : others plant trained 

 trees, which are trained upon a trellis against the back wall of 

 the house, and plant the front border with dwarf-standards. 

 In either case, where the trees are to remain permanently, it 

 is necessary to procure such as are healthy, and of suflScient 

 height to suit the size of the house. Trees that are two or 

 three years from the bud are to be preferred. We would, 

 however, recommend that the cherry-house be furnished with 

 plants grown in portable tubs, pots, or boxes, and that the 

 trees be preparing for that purpose a year or two before forcing. 

 They should be selected young in the nursery, but where there 

 are many of these trees to be forced annually, we would re- 

 commend every gardener to propagate his own. When these 

 trees are one year from the bud, they should be taken care- 

 fully up, and potted in pots of twelve or fourteen inches in 

 diameter at top, according to their roots and strength of the 

 tree, or in tubs of the same dimensions, either round or square, 

 and if so, to be made upon the principle of our orange-tree box, 

 (for a figure and description, see Green-house and Conserva- 

 tory), so that they can be taken to pieces more conveniently, 

 and the trees taken out without injury. After they are planted, 

 either in pots or tubs, let them be plunged in a sheltered but 

 not shaded quarter of the garden, and regularly supplied with 

 water during summer, and the surface covered with rotten 

 dung, both to prevent a too rapid evaporation, as well as to 

 nourish the trees. They should remain there until the season 

 of forcing, v>^hich for cherries is soon enough, to expect much 

 return, about the first of January. Such a number should 

 then be carefully taken up, and carried into the house, as may 

 De either sufficient for the supply required, or to fill the house. 



