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be given more frequently according to the weather. The amount of 
water the individual trees require may be easily ascertained by tapping 
the pot, which will give quite a bell-like note if the earth be dry. When 
watering the borders and paths should be thoroughly damped down to 
ensure moisture in the air. The trees must be syringed morning and 
evening until the fruit begins to colour, after which syringing should be 
discontinued, or the fruit will crack. Liquid manure or soot water should 
be given twice a week after stoning ; and as there is so little earth in the 
pot compared to the crop it ripens, additional food must be given in the 
shape of a top-dressmg of equal parts of kilndust and horse-droppings 
mixed, making a layer of about 2 inches thick near the rim of the pot, 
sloping down to the stem so as to form a basin to hold the water. Two 
top-dressings will be necessary : the first when the fruits are stoning, the 
second when they are colouring, by which time the goodness of the first 
application will be exhausted. When the young shoots have made a 
dozen or so good leaves they should be pinched back to eight or ten. One 
pinching alone is necessary, subsequent growths being left alone. The 
worst insect enemy to contend with is the black fly, but it may be kept 
down by watchfulness. The first smoking, with tobacco paper, referred to 
above, will do much ; subsequently the trees may be smoked at any period 
with the patent vaporising compounds now sold. XL ALL may be used 
with perfect safety, even during flowering. There are many good Cherries 
well adopted to pot work when budded on the Mahaleb. Though it is 
a mistake to have too many varieties, several are needed to cover all the 
season, and it is very pleasant when one has been feasting on luscious 
Geans to give the palate a change by eating some crisp Bigarreaus or 
acidulous Dukes. About the third week in June ' Belle d'Orleans ' and 
' Guigne Annonay ' are ripe, the former light red, the latter black, both 
excellent Cherries and good croppers, though the fruit is somewhat small 
and that of the latter soon becomes dull after ripening. ' Werder's Early 
Black ' ripens next : the fruit of this sort also soon loses its lustre, and it 
is scarcely worth growing, since ' Early Rivers ' ripens almost at the same 
time. ' Early Rivers ' is an ideal pot Cherry, bearing its large black fruits 
abundantly : they are of excellent flavour and hang on the tree a month 
after ripening, perfectly sound and bright to the last. ' Black Circassian,' 
' Bigarreau deSchreken,' and ' Bedford Prolific,' three good black Cherries, 
follow. 
In July we have ' Bigarreau Noir de Guben ' ; ' Governor Wood,' an 
excellent pale-red Cherry, Avhich is, however, very liable to crack if water 
touches the ripening fruit ; ' Belle de Choisy,' a fine Duke ; * Frogmore 
Bigarreau,' red ; 'May Duke ' ; ' Elton,' a handsome bright-red Bigarreau ; 
' White Bigarreau,' with waxen yellow fruit slightly tinged with red next 
the sun ; ' Turkey Black Heart,' a fine pot Cherry with firm, juicy fruit ; 
' Reine Hortense,' a large Duke ; ' Monstreuse de Mezel,' a very large 
dark-red Bigarreau ; ' Bigarreau Napoleon,' deep-red ; ' Black Hawk'; and 
' Emperor Francis,' a very large bright-red Bigarreau. 
In August ripen ' Late Duke ' ; ' Large Black Bigarreau ' ; ' Guigne 
de Winkler,' bright-red ; ' Late Black Bigarreau ' ; and last, but not by 
any means least, * Geant d'Hcdelfinger,' a brownish-black Cherry of 
immense size with very firm flesh. 
