General Harrison. It presents a considerable re- 
semblance to the Biggareau, and possesses the 
same adaptations, and requires the same treat- 
ment ; but it has wider-spreading shoots and more 
indented leaves,—it produces poorer, larger, and 
less highly coloured fruit,—and it is much infe- 
rior both in prolific habit and in general worth. 
Yet its fruit possesses the important recommen- 
dations of being late in ripening, of strongly re- 
sisting the destructive power of wet weather, and 
of having a very fine appearance in the dessert. 
Adam’s Crown Heart cherry is near akin to 
the White Heart. Its tree makes a good stan- 
dard, but is not suited to training; and its fruit 
ripens about the middle of July, and has delicate 
pulp, and abundant and agreeable juice—Church- 
ill’s Heart cherry makes a hardy and handsome 
| standard, and is well-adapted to the orchard. Its 
_ fruit has a bright red to the sun and a pure yellow 
to the shade; and its pulp is firm, and juice good 
but scanty.—The Spanish Heart cherry is an in- 
different or even bad variety, with yellow fruit. 
—The Amber Heart cherry is an old variety, 
found principally in old orchards, somewhat ten- 
der in habit and an indifferent bearer, but 
prized for the fine amber colour and good-eating 
properties of its fruit. 
The Purple Griotte or Early Purple Guigne 
cherry is both the earliest and the best of the 
early varieties. It was accidentally introduced, 
in 1822, from Geneva, as one of a collection 
named Griotte de Chaux. It ripens even earlier 
than the Early May cherry, and is superior to it 
in both the size and the quality of its fruit ; and, 
on these accounts, it has been regarded as a 
great acquisition to the British garden and or- 
chard. When the Purple Griotte, the Karly 
May, and the May Duke are grown in similar 
situations, the Purple Grivtte is in full perfec- 
tion when the Early May is barely ripe, and 
when the May Duke is quite green; and, in gen- 
eral, the Purple Griotte may be regarded as a 
fortnight earlier than the May Duke, and as 
quite equal to it in quality. The fruit of the 
Purple Griotte is compressed, somewhat heart- 
shaped, and of a good size; its footstalks are 
long, moderately thick, and well set in an almost 
round cavity; its colour is a shining dark pur- 
ple; its pulp is purplish, and tolerably soft and 
tender; and its juice is abundant, sweet, and 
richly-flavoured. When this variety is grown 
upon a south wall, it begins to produce fruit for 
use in the end of May. 
All the varieties of garden and orchard cherry- 
tree are usually propagated by budding or graft- 
ing, upon stocks of the wild black cherry. Stocks 
of this kind shoot more strongly, and have a 
sturdier habit and a longer duration than those 
of any other kind; and therefore are usually 
preferred. Cherries for sowing may be gathered. 
and sown as soon as ripe; or their drupes may 
be preserved in sand throughout the winter, and 
sown in spring. The seed-bed should consist of 
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light sandy earth. When the seedlings arise, 
they must be weeded; and if the weather be 
dry, they ought to be watered. In October of the 
second autumn after sowing, the young plants 
should be removed to a nursery-bed of good, 
fresh, well-worked earth, in an open situation, 
and planted in rows three feet from row to row, 
and one foot from plant to plant. In the act of 
transplanting, the roots should be carefully taken 
up, and judiciously thinned; and if they indi- 
cate a tendency to expend their strength down- 
ward, their central stem may be shortened, to 
induce it to send out lateral growths. 
Plants which readily establish themselves in 
the nursery-bed are usually ready to be budded 
for dwarfs in the second year after transplant- 
ing, but not for standards till the fourth year. 
Most of the varieties of good cherry-trees require 
to be budded at nearly six feet from the ground ; 
and hence—unless their graft itself should be 
trained upward as part of the future stem—they 
can seldom if ever be budded upon stocks which |. 
have stood less than four years in the nursery- 
bed. Budding is usually performed in summer; 
and, when it fails, it is repeated in the following 
spring. When the bud shoots in summer, and 
is in risk of damage from storms, it may be pro- 
tected by a soft-binding of bass or any similar 
material; and in the beginning of March, every 
successful plant must be headed off about six 
inches above the bud. Hither in the following 
autumn, or after the lapse of another year, the 
plants may be removed to their final situation ; 
but, at the time of transplanting, they ought to 
have their roots judiciously pruned, but must 
not by any means be headed. The proper dis- 
tances for both standards and espalier-trees have 
already been sufficiently indicated. 
The best soil for most varieties of cherry-trees 
is a light, dry, sandy loam, incumbent upon ir- 
retentive or well-drained strata. Hither great 
richness of earth, or the presence of more than a 
very moderate degree of manurial matter, forces 
the trees into rank growth, gives them a pletho- 
ric habit, and impairs or renders positively coarse 
the quality of their fruit. A frequent top-dress- 
ing of soot operates very serviceably by its gra- 
dual, regular, and abundant transmutation into 
carbonic acid gas, or rather by the consequent 
action of this gas in affording carbonaceous ali- 
ment to the trees, and especially in killing all 
sorts of injurious insects, whether on the ground 
or on the trees. Fumigation with tobacco smoke, 
syringing with tobacco water, and washing with 
strong lime water, are requisite for destroying 
aphides whenever these exist in such swarms as 
to make a copious discharge of honeydew. See 
the articles ApHis and Honryprw. Whenever a 
tree exudes sap, and forms an exterior gummy 
secretion, the affected part should be lopped off, 
and the wound covered with grafting clay.— 
Miller’s Gardener's Dictionary.—Loudon’s Hortus 
Britannicus—Rogers’ Fruit Cultivator —The Po- 
