THE AMATEUR’S KITCHEN GARDEN, 
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would also lie a capital plan to have cherry trees trained to 
the wall and gooseberry and currant bushes on the border, 
with strawberries between, so as to have the various fruits 
ripening about the same time altogether. The netting and 
supports can be readily removed from place to place, and any 
fruit it may be desirable to protect be covered without diffi- 
culty. It is not necessary to provide doors, as it is so very 
easy to arrange the netting so that the gardener can pass 
through close to the wall. Standard cherries are so handsome 
in flower that they are peculiarly suitable for planting in a 
paddock or playground, as well as in the shrubbery. A well 
drained sandy soil suits the cherry well, but any good soil as a 
rule will produce good cherries. 
A selection OF Cherries should comprise the Morello , as 
the most important, because in most places a north w r all suits 
it perfectly ; it is immensely productive of a most useful 
culinary fruit, and the birds do not like it. The following 
are the best of the several classes : — Belle d' Orleans*, D ; 
Black Tartarian*, I) ; May Duke*, D; Black Eagle; 
Bigarreau Napoleon, D ; Elton, D ; Florence, D ; Coes Late 
Carnation, D ; Kentish*, K ; Belle Maqnifique, K ; Morello*, 
K ; Frogmore Early Bigarreau*, D ; .Royal Duke, D ; 
Werders Early Black, D. 
The Currant is so accommodating that it is almost waste 
of words to speak of the soil it requires, but a very few words 
will suffice. A sandy or calcareous soil suits red and white 
currants better than peat or clay, and on the other hand the 
black currant prefers a damp loam or clay, and is rather poor 
on a calcareous or sandy soil. But we find them all thriving 
in the same gardens on all kinds of soils, and they usually 
bear well in seasons wffien all other kinds of fru ts are swept 
away by May frosts. The red and white are usually pruned 
back to within a couple of inches of the old wood, and when 
so treated they produce finer berries lhan when left unpruned. 
On the other hand, if left unpruned, they bear an enormous 
quantity of fruit, the rods being clothed with bunches to the 
very tip. As for the black currants, it is not customary to 
prune them at all, but if very large berries are wanted, a few 
strong bushes should be cut down to the ground and allowed 
to throw up only half-a-dozen stout rods the next season. 
This proceeding entails the loss of a season by the trees cut 
down, so there is no profit in pruning the black currant ; the 
