THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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few small crocks mixed with the soil to keep it open to enable the 
roots to extend freely. Liberal supplies of water will be necessary 
when the plants are in fall growth. At other times moderate 
supplies only will be required, and during October and November 
the soil should be kept rather dry, to afford the plants a season of 
rest, previous to pushing up their dower-spikes. The latter, it should 
be remembered, are produced in succession, and the dowers also 
expand, one or two at a time, on each spike, and consequently a 
supply is yielded, extending over a very considerable period. 
CIIERBY CULTURE. 
BY TUOMAS TKOSSLEK, 
Head Gardener, Knighton, Buckliurst Hid. 
n HE cultivation of the choicer kind of cherries does not 
appear to receive that amount of attention it should do, 
for in many cases the trees are left pretty much to them- 
selves, and in others the commoner kinds only are 
grown. There is not, perhaps, much that is really new 
to be said upon the subject, for all good cultivators are well agreed 
upon the main points in the planting and management of the trees, 
but a few hints just now will perhaps be of some service to many 
readers of the Floral World. 
In the drst place, it is well that those varieties which produce 
fruit of good davour, and handsome in appearance, and are, more- 
over, of free growth, and productive, should be selected, for it is not 
desirable to plant small or, in fact, larger gardens, with trees that 
will not amply pay for all the labour and attention necessary to keep 
them in proper order. In gardens of limited dimensions, which -wdll 
not afford accommodation for more than a limited number of trees, 
preference should be given to those kinds which produce fruit suit- 
able for the dessert ; but, if possible, room should be found for a few 
trees of varieties such as the Morello, which yield fruit best adapted 
for culinary purposes. There are nearly two hundred varieties in 
cultivation, and from these I have selected the following as the best 
in their respective classes, and likely to maintain a succession over 
the longest possible period : — 
Dessert. — Ripening in June, Belle d' Orleans, Early Bed Bigar- 
reau, Early B%iryle Gean, Werder, Early Blade; ripening in July, 
Blade Tartarian, Frogmore Early Biyarreau, May DnJee, Elton, 
Boyal D^ike, Joc-o-sot, Bigarreau, Mary ; ripening in August, Florence, 
Late Bigarreau, Late Eulce ; ripening in September, Coe's Late Car- 
nation, Bilttner's Yellow, Bigarreau d' Hildesheim, Rival. 
Culinary. — Kentish Belle, Magnifigue, and Morello. 
All the foregoing may be grown as bushes, pyramids, standards 
and espaliers, or trained to a wall. They are all of excellent quality,’ 
January. 
