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Garden Work 
There are two distinct kinds. These require entirely 
different treatment. 
1. Those suited for dessert. 
2. Those suited for cooking. 
They may be propagated by budding or grafting, and 
may be grown either as bush, standard, or wall trees. The 
Morello Cherries fruit on the previous year’s wood, there- 
fore this will only have to be thinned out at pruning time, 
whereas the dessert varieties fruit almost entirely on spurs, 
therefore practically the whole of the young shoots may be 
cut off, except the leading ones, until they have filled the 
space allotted to them. If grown as bush or standard trees, 
the shoots should be cut off to prevent overcrowding. In 
the case of Morello Cherries, they should be stopped back 
also, if required to keep the tree in shape. Summer 
pruning should also be done to allow the light and air to 
get in to ripen the wood for next year’s fruiting. The 
dessert cherries, if grown as bush or standard trees, will 
only require the shoots to be thinned out, and the young 
wood which is not required as leading shoots should be cut 
right away, and any branches which tend to run away and 
spoil the symmetry of the tree stopped back. 
When grown on walls, the fan system of training is 
most suitable for the Morello, as the shoots can be more 
easily “cut out” and “laid in” as necessary for this kind of 
growth. During summer the young wood should be cut 
out, with the exception of the shoots required for “ laying 
in”, and of the leaders, which may be “tied in” at the 
same time. The “nailing” or “tying in” should be done 
during winter. If left too late the buds are apt to be 
knocked off when they have commenced swelling. 
