Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
fhoots or branches, it makes the fap flow ftrongly to 
the lateral eyes or buds, whereby they are apt to pulh 
forth vigorous wood fhoots, inftead of forming truit- 
buds for bearing, and therefore, in giving occaflonal 
pruning to the trees, fhould moftly prefervo the gene¬ 
ral branches and flioots at their whole length, except in 
particular inftances, to regulate or reduce any fuper- 
extended fhoots, or confiderable ftrolling growth,which 
may be pruned more or lefs accordingly, retaining all 
the others intire; and they will naturally furnifh the 
above-mentioned Pnort fpurs for fruit: the fame brancht s 
and fruit-fpurs continue many years in a prolific ftate. 
Though in the Cherry particularly, the trees often 
bear on the year-old flioots immediately from the eyes 
thereof, as well as upon fpurs formed as above ex¬ 
plained, on the two, three, and fev'eral years old 
branches; or more generally, however, the Morello 
Cherry, which always bears abundantly upon the 
young fhoots of a year old, and alfo on fmall fpurs on 
the older wood; but when trained in wall-trees, in 
which an annual pruning and nailing is requifite, fhould 
generally, in the Morello, leave a plentiful fupply of 
the young fhoots of each year, for immediate bearers 
the enfuing feafon, and part of the naked, old wood 
cutout accordingly in the winter-pruning. 
Both thefe fpecies of fruit-trees, the Plum and 
Cherry, in their feveral varieties, are proper, to culti¬ 
vate plentifully in ftandards and W'ail-trees, in gar¬ 
dens and orchards, as before intimated; being gene¬ 
rally raifed by grafting and budding upon Hocks of 
their refpedtive kinds, trained each with a Angle Hem, 
four to five or fix feet high, for half and full ftandards, 
and to branch out at thofe heights, to form the head; 
but for the general fupply, are moftly trained in full 
ftandards, in Items of about fix feet height, and plant¬ 
ed twenty or thirty feet diftance, and permitted to 
branch out fully above; arul occafionally trained in 
dwarf and hhlf ftandards, with ftems of one or two to 
three or four feet; and for wall-trees, fhould allot a 
collection of the belt varieties, trained principally in 
low ftems, only five, fix, or eight inches, to branch 
out near the ground, to cover the wall with branches, 
in a regular expanfion, quite from the bottom upwards, 
and planted againlt walls of different afpedts, as fouth 
walls for the earliefl produdtion, and on walls of other 
expofures, to furnifh fucceffion and late crops, planting 
them generally not lefs than twelve or fifteen to eight¬ 
een feet diftance; and the branches arranged to the 
wall horizontally four to five or fix inches afunder, all 
generally at their whole length, both in the Plums and 
Cherries, in which they will gradually form fruit-fpurs 
along their fides for bearing: feme may all. be planted 
in efpaliers and trained fimilar to thoft: in wall-trees; 
and in both of which, the walls anti efpalicr-trce 1 , 
they will produce fruit in lupcrior perfection, if regu¬ 
larly managed, by proper pruning and nailing every 
year in fummer and winter; but as to the ftandards, 
they having full fcope to branch out freely above all 
around in full heads, they do not require any pruning, 
at leaft only occafionally, to reform any very irregular 
growth, and to cut out cafual, decayed wood. 
For ftandards, anv or all the forts of Plums ami 
Cher ries may be trained and planted in any common 
foil cf a garden, orchard, See. and in which may either 
have a full collection, where fufbeient extent of ground, 
or have only an affortment of the principal or molt ap¬ 
proved varieties. 
But for wall and efpalier Plums and Cherries, ge¬ 
nerally have only the principal forts, valuable fome 
for their early produdtion, ethers for the fuperior qua¬ 
lity of the fruit, and fome for late ripening, thereby 
obtain Plums from July and beginning of Auguft to 
the end of Odtober; and Cherries from May and June 
till September, of which the principal early forts are 
the May and other Duke kinds, fucceeded bv the 
Heart Cherries, &c. and of the late forts, the Morello 
is fuperior, as a great bearer and fine large Cherry, 
and which is commonly planted on north walls, as it 
bears abundantly in any afpedt, and when in a north 
expofure, it continues in longeft perfection; but it is 
alfo proper to have fome on louth walls, to enjoy the be¬ 
nefit of the fun, to ripen the fruit with a richer flavour, 
in which it proves a very fine large Cherry for the ta¬ 
ble ; when fully ripe, of a black-red colour. 
In ftandard Plums, generally have a principal fupply 
of the bed bearers and moil: ufeful, both for eating 
and domeftic cccafions; fuch as the Orleans, Green 
Gage, Imperial Plum, Bonum Magnum, Fothering- 
ham, Imperatrice, Royal Plum, Mvrobalan, Perdri- 
gons. Queen Claude, Damalh Plum, Mirabelle. 
White Primordian, Wentworth Plum, rvc. and alway 
fome Damfons. 
And for ftandard Cherries, all the Duke kinds are 
proper for principal fupplies, fome beft lorn of Heart 
Cherries, and plenty of the Kentifh or Flemifh Chex- 
rv, being an abundant bearer and excellent Cherry, 
when fully ripe; alfo fome Morellos, and Black Co- 
roune; but as to the Great Wild Cherry Tree, the 
common fmall Black and Red-fruited kinds are culti¬ 
vated principally in large ftandards, in orchards and 
out-grounds, or occafionally in garden collections, to 
encreafe die variety, and is very commonly planted in 
hedge-rows of fields, and in parks. See. 
Proper collodions of the different varieties of Plum 
and Cherry, for planting, may be procured at the pub¬ 
lic nurferies, both in ftandards and wall-trees; either 
young trees, with heads of only one or two years old. 
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