FEBRUARY. 
59 
March, and consists mainly in shortening the fruiting spurs, and 
reducing the summer’s growth to within half an inch from 
whence they spring. The principal branches should be moderately thin, 
and avoid, as far as practicable, the amputation of those members after 
they are once formed. 
Fig. 16 represents spurs formed on wood of two years old. A are 
natural fruit spurs ; B, a young shoot, that will ultimately become a 
fruit spur; and which must be shortened at the winter pruning to 
within three buds of its base, as shown by the dotted line C. Fig. 17 
represents a branch and spur of a Cherry tree, of older growth, which 
has been subjected to pruning, and shortened back as shown at D, 
where probably fruit buds will again form the following season. This 
must be repeated from year to year, as the spurs get long, and, if any 
get unmanageable, cut close back to the main branch, for the object of 
forming new spurs. 
Fig, 16. 
The Morello differs widely from other varieties of the Cherry, both 
in the habit of the tree as T^eli as its mode of bearing ; therefore, it 
is requisite that a different system of management should be adopted ; 
and as it is of weak constitution, and usually short lived, a strong 
healthy growth ought to be encouraged by a liberal supply of manure 
water, during their growth in the early part of summer. 
The fruit of the Morello is borne on wood of the previous year’s 
growth, after which the shoots are bare; therefore, a regular supply of 
young wood must be encouraged, annually, throughout the entire tree, 
and as many as possible of the shoots that bore the previous season 
removed at the winter pruning, to give place to the young shoots. The 
fan arrangement is preferable to any other way of training the Morello, 
