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THE MINTATUKE PEUIT GAEDEiT. 



discovered by the fruit-cultivator. Many kinds of 

 pears grow with great luxuriance when grafted or 

 budded on the quince stock, while other kinds, culti- 

 vated in the same soil, and budded or grafted with 

 equal care, will grow feebly, and die in the course of 

 a year or two. 



The ISToblesse and Poj^al George peaches form fine 

 healthy trees' when budded on the Muscle plum stock. 

 The Grosse Mignonne and the French Galande die in 

 a year or two, if budded on it. The Moor Park apri- 

 cot grows readily and freely on the above-named stock. 

 The peach apricot, its French congener, will not; 

 why ? The Bigarreau and the Heart cherries (or, as 

 the French call them, Guignes) do not succeed well 

 on the Cerasus Mahaleb ; they grow most rapidly for 

 two or three years, and then generally become gummy 

 and diseased. 



The stock raised from the small black and red wild 

 cherries is the proper one for this race, except they 

 are double grafted. 



Pyramidal cherry trees maybe bought ready-made, 

 or formed by purchasing young trees, one year old, 

 from the bud, and training them up in the same way 

 as directed for pyramidal pears (pp. 4 and 5), with 

 this variation — pears, as is well known, may be grown 

 as pyramids successfully, with or without root-prun- 

 ing or biennial removal ; but cherries on common 

 cherry stocks will grow so rapidly, in spite of summer 

 pinching, that biennial removal is a work of necessity. 

 In the course of a few years, pyramidal cherry trees 

 tlius treated become pictures of beauty. In France 

 they generally fail, and become full of dead stumps 



