xHE dOMMERClAL ASPECT OF HARDY FRUIT (^ROWING. 829 
Elton is a red variety only a few days later than the last 
named, and a great and continuous bearer. 
Governor Wood is another reliable and excellent variety. 
The fruit is pale in colour, and produced in great quantities on 
trees of all forms, ripening about the same time as Elton. 
Amongst late Cherries, Florence is one of the very best, and 
will pay for planting, as the fruit hangs well after ripening and 
always sells at a good price. 
The new Emperor Francis promises to be a decided acquisi- 
tion to late sorts, as it crops freely, and the fruit is very fine and 
keeps sound until the middle of September. 
Cherry trees, planted as standards, should either have bush 
fruit or Strawberries grown between them, or else be pastured 
with sheep or pigs, to make the land as rich as possible, for the 
more they are supplied with stimulants the heavier the crop and 
the larger the fruit. Pruning standard trees is a very simple opera- 
tion, as it consists in merely thinning out the shoots whilst 
the trees are young and removing any growths that cross or 
rub each other, so as to lay the foundation of a good and well- 
balanced head. 
There is a possibility of making a fair profit by planting 
Morello Cherries as bush trees, for they bear very freely worked 
on either the Cherry or the Mahaleb stock, and really fine fruit 
sold late in the season will realise on the average Gd. per lb., 
and sometimes double that price. A large grower on the Con- 
tinent assured the writer that he found the English market so 
good for Morellos that he had planted five acres of bush trees, 
and he fully expected the investment to prove a thorough suc- 
cess. Continental growers are keenly alive to the requirements 
of our fruit buyers, and take prompt steps to cater for the 
same ; therefore, to meet them on equal terms we must be 
equally sharp and businesslike, seizing every opportunity of 
supplying fruit that is in good demand. And judging from the 
experience of late years, there is a growing inquiry for fine late 
Morello Cherries. 
As to the profits arising from Cherry culture, a great deal 
depends upon the grower himself and the skill or good manage- 
ment he exercises. Mr. George Bunyard, in his excellent work 
on " Fruit Farming for Profit," puts the average return at £S0 
an acre in the Kentish Cherry orchards ; but by planting only 
