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are intended for dwarfs; but if they are for standards they will not be tall enough till the fourth 
year, for they should be budded or grafted near six feet from the ground, otherwise the graft will not 
advance much in height; so that it will be impossible to make a good tree from such as are grafted 
low, unless the graft be trained upwards. 
The usual way with the nursery-gardeners is, to bud their stocks in summer, and such of them as 
miscarry they graft the succeeding spring. Those trees where the buds have taken, must be headed 
off the beginning of March about six inches above the bud; and when the bud has shot in summer, 
if there be any apprehension of its being blown out by the winds, it must be fastened with bass or 
other soft tying to that part of the stock which was left above the bud. The autumn following these 
trees will be fit to remove; but if the ground be not ready to receive them, they may remain two 
years before they are transplanted; in doing which observe not to head them, for this very often is 
immediate death to them; but if they survive, they seldom recover in five or six years. 
If these trees are intended for a wall, plant dwarfs between the standards; but the latter, as the 
former fill the walls, must be cut away, to make room for them. But never plant standard Cherries 
over other fruits; for there is no sort of fruit that will prosper well under the drip of Cherries. 
When these trees are taken up from the nursery, shorten the roots, and cut off all the bruised 
parts, as also the small fibres, wdiich would dry, grow mouldy, and be a great prejudice to the new 
fibres in their coming forth; cut off likewise the dead part of the stock which was left above the 
bud, close down to the back part of it, that the stock may be covered by the bud. If these trees 
are designed for wall, place the bud directly from the wall, that the back part of the stock which 
was cut may be hid from sight. The soil that Cherries thrive best in is a fresh hazel loam: if it be 
a dry gravel they will not live many years, and will be perpetually blighted in the spring. 
The sorts commonly planted against walls are the Early May and May Duke, which should 
have a south aspect. The Hearts and common Duke will thrive on a west wall, and in order to con¬ 
tinue the Duke later in the season, they are frequently placed against north and north-west walls, 
where they succeed very well. The Morello, which is chiefly planted for preserving, is commonly 
put on a north wall. The Hearts are all ill bearers, for which reason they are seldom planted 
against walls; but probably if they were grafted on the Bird Cherry, and managed properly, that 
defect might be remedied; for it is said that this stock will render Cherries very fruitful; and having 
the same effect on Cherries as the Paradise stock has on Apples, they may be kept in less compass: 
at least it is an experiment well worth the trial. 
Cherry trees planted against a wall, should be at least twenty or twenty-four feet asunder, with 
a standard tree between each dwarf: for these trees will extend themselves as far as, or farther than 
Apricots, and many other sorts of fruit. 
In pruning Cherries, the shoots should never be shortened, for most of them produce their fruit 
buds at their extreme part, which by shortening are cut off, and this often occasions the death of the 
shoot: their branches should therefore be trained in at full length horizontally, observing in May, 
where there is a vacancy in the wall, to stop some strong adjoining branches, which will occasion 
their putting out two or more shoots; by which means, at that season of the year, there may always 
be a supply of wood for covering the wall; at the same time displace all fore-right shoots by the 
hand, for if they are suffered to grow till winter, they will not only deprive the bearing branches of 
their proper supply of nourishment, but when they are cut out, they occasion the tree to gum in that 
part; for Cherries bear the knife worse than any other sort of fruit-trees; but be careful not to rub 
off the sides 01 spurs which aie produced upon the two or three years old wood; for it is upon these 
that the gieatest part of the fruit is produced, and they will continue fruitful for several years. It is 
