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jn wall-trees, for earlier and finer fruit, in the greateft 
perfe&ion, and fome in efpaliers; or, where no walls 
or efpaliers, may have the two lad-mentioned kinds 
wholly in dandards, and in which mod of the varieties 
will produce ] ientiful crops in good maturity; but the 
Apricots fhould generally be trained in wall-trees, 
Sgainff warm walls, and fome particular forts will alfo 
produce tolerable crops on dandards and in efpaliers, 
as will be hereafter explained. 
All the forts of Plum and Cherry trees produce the 
fruit principally upon irr.all fpurs arifing at the fkles and 
ends of the branches, of from two or three to ieveral 
years old, and the fame branches and fruit-fpurs con¬ 
tinue many years fruitful: though the Cherries parti¬ 
cularly fometimes alfo bear on the young fhoots of a 
year old, or more generally in the Morello and fmall 
May Cherry, the mod abundantly, efpecially the Mo¬ 
rello, which commonly produces the principal crops of 
fruit on the young year-old wood. 
Of the Plum kinds, to cultivate for the fruit, that 
of the Primus DomeJUca, or Common Plum tree, is the 
mod valuable, affording numerous varieties of the 
fruit in great diverfity, in fhape, fize, and colour, of 
red, white, yellow, blue, green, black, &c. ripening, 
in the different varieties, in regular fucceflion,, from 
J uly till the end off October, both for immediate eat¬ 
ing and for pies, preferving, &c- and therefore the 
trees are very profitable to cultivate in gardens and 
orchards, for their production of fruit, efpecially as 
they will profper in any common fertile foil, either 
principally in ffandards, or feme alfo in wall-trees., 
where there is the accommodation of walls; in which 
it is eligible to allot fome of the mod edeemed forts, 
both to obtain fome fruit as early ripe as pofiible, and 
to have the whole, both early and other kinds, of an 
improved growth and maturity ; and of the Plum kind, 
fhould never oinit having a few trees of the Damfon 
in dandards, the fruit being very ufeful in a family.: 
likewife may admit fome of the Bullaces infmall dan- 
dard-trees, to encreafe the variety; the fruit, when 
quite ripe, in September and October, is wholefome 
and of an agreeable acid flavor; or may alfo have 
fome of the Sloe tree, the fruit of which being like¬ 
wife of the Plum tribe, but confiderably the/mailed of 
that kind, of an audere quality, though palatable to 
fome perfons, and is ufeful in feveral domedic occa- 
fions. 
Of the Cherry kind, the principal fpecies for gene¬ 
ral planting is the Cerafus cr Common Cherry tree, 
compriiir.g its different varieties, a colledion of which 
merits culture in every garden; valuable both for pro¬ 
ducing the earlied ripe dimmer fruit, continuing, in 
fucceflion, two or three months, or more, from May 
jmd Tune till Augufl or September, in the early and 
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late forts, all very refrefhlng to eat in hot weather, and 
exceedingly ufeful for feveral kitchen purpofes, and 
other occasions in a family, as well as a very profita¬ 
ble fruit for market; and the trees of all the vatiedes 
generally produce plentiful annual crops, both on dan- 
dards, wall-trees, &c. fo that they may be planted 
abundantly in gardens and orchards, in dandards, for 
the principal production; and Cherry orchards are 
very profitable in the produdion of fruit for fale; and 
for wall-trees Ihould allot fome of the bed varieties, 
both of early and late kinds, planted againd fouth and 
other walls, or fome may alfo be planted for efpaliers. 
The Primus avium, or Great Wild Cherry Tree, is 
proper to plant in full dandards in orchards, parks, ave¬ 
nues,and hedge- rows, or alfo in gardens and pleafure- 
grounds; is a great bearer, the fruit fmall, but of an 
agreeable bittcridi-fweet flavor; though the large red- 
fruited Wild Cherry, and the Black Couronne or Cou- 
roon, varieties of the Prunus avium, being tolerably 
good fized fruit, and of a very agreeable tafle, pecu¬ 
liar to thefe kinds, are deferving of culture in the bed 
collections of the Cherry kind, in gardens and orch¬ 
ards, principally in dandards, — See the general culture 
of the Cherry Tree , &c. 
The Apricot, confiding but of one principal fpecies. 
Prunes Armeniaca, furnifhing many line varieties, is 
cultivated principally inwall-trees, and planted modly 
againd fouth walls, and occafionally thofe of wed and 
eaderly afpeCts; fome forts alfo in dandards, fuch as the 
Breda and Bruffels Apricot, and in which, in favour¬ 
able feafons, they produce plentiful crops of fruit, and 
ripen in good perfection; and thefe two forts are 
likewife fometimes planted in efpaliers, in which they 
alfo produce fruit very agreeably, in good maturity. 
General Culture of the Plum and Cherry, 
As the Plum and Cherry are nearly fimilar in their 
mode of bearing, and the fame method of culture is 
applicable to both the fpecies and their refpeCtive vari¬ 
eties, (hall therefore treat of them accordingly, toge¬ 
ther, under the fame general head. 
All the forts of Plums and Cherries produce the 
flowers and fruit modly upon natural fpurs or curfons, 
fmall, robull {hoots, half an inch to an inch or two long, 
emitted along the tides and at the ends of the branch¬ 
es, when of two or three to feveral years old, arifing 
fird towards the upper parts, then gradually increafing 
in number at the lateral eyes, the whole length of the 
branches, provided they are continued intire, not 
fhortened; as their mode of bearing does not admit of 
lhortening, which would not only dedroy the fird 
fruitful parts, or where the fruit-fpurs generally begin 
to form, but alfo, by pruning away that part of the 
fhoots 
