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CULTURE OF CHERRIES. 
weeds, will attain a good height the first summer. In the autumn, 
transplant them in rows, and cut off their tap roots; and in the fol¬ 
lowing March, head them down close to the ground, and only allow 
them to throw up a single stem, rubbing off all others as they make 
their appearance. In the succeeding autumn, plant them on a quar¬ 
ter of good soil, in rows three feet six inches apart, and one loot 
apart in the rows; but previous to planting them out, select 
the best, as nearly of a size as possible, for budding as standards. 
The smaller and less handsome ones, may be planted together for 
dwarfs: these latter are generally grafted, whilst the former are bud¬ 
ded. Those intended for dwarfs will be ready for grafting the fol¬ 
lowing spring, whilst the standards will, at least, require another 
year’s growth, as they should not be budded less than six feet from 
the ground. Dwarfs and standards should never be indiscriminately 
mixed, except in singular cases, as where the stock intended for a 
standard did not reach the proper height for the purpose, &c. for the 
dwarfs never make good plants, when growing under any shade. 
Grafting Dwarf Cherries .—The system of grafting generally 
practised upon all small stocks is “ tongue-grafting ;”tobe performed 
in the following manner:—Lop off your stocks at about four indies 
from the ground, and with a very sharp grafting-knife cut, at one 
pull, a thin strip of wood from about two inches below your air ady 
shortened stock, as (Fig. 31, a, b.) Then rather less than halfway 
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down this cut, cut a thin tongue, not more than three-eighths ui ail 
inch long, (c) Proceed nearly in the same way with the bottom part 
of the scion, and cut first a narrow strip of wood, only do not leave a 
shoulder, as in the stock, but make a sloping cut of about the same 
length as that in the stock. Then make a tongue to correspond with that 
in the stock; place the scion upon the stock, fixing one tongue with- 
