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Show fo that it will be Caftanei nee advance much in height, 10. Cerasus ; Sicila, finkiu impoffible to make a good Tree from fuch as ry ; vu/go. Cher ifh Span ow Yell The . Tourn are grafted low. plura fer 11. Cerasus; uno pediculo, ry. The ufual Way with the Nurfery GardenCher Gg. B. The Flanders Clufteris to bud their Stocks in Summer: And ers, aCarn The nato. 12. Cerasus ; fructu incar : fuch of them as mifcarry, they graft the fucion-Cherry. Opeorbic slato, ni- ceeding Spring. (The manner ofthefe a fativa, frutku rations will be defcribed under their proper Black Large The Tourn. e. 05 micant Heads). Thofe Trees where the Buds have Cherry. of frudu taken, muft be headed off in the Beginning . a ae vacemofa, fylveftris, won eduli. C. B. The Bird-Cherry. frutiu rs, Cerasus; racemofa, fylveftris, March, about CE CE CE CE fix Inches above the Bud: which is an Experiment well worth ,the Trial. Your Trees, if planted againft a Wall, with fhould be placed fourteen Feet afunder, 4 Standard-Tree between each Dwarf: This will be founda reafonable Diftance, when we confider that Cherry-TIrees will not extend them(elves fo far as Apricocks, and many other Sorts of Fruit. In pruning thefe Sorts of Fruits, you fhould never fhorten their Shoots; for the moft part And when the Bud hath fhot in Summer, if Bird, youfear its being blownout by the Winds, non eduli rubvo. H. R. Pav. The Red you mayfaften it up with fome Bafs, or fuch y Cornifh Cherry. to that Part of the Stock which foft-tying, The B. C. rofeo. fore s bl : i Cerasus; was left above the Bud- The Autumn folCherry. Double-Alower'd Largeft The lowing thefe Trees will be fit to remove. But 17. Cerasus; hortenfis pleno flove. C. B. if your Ground is not ready to receive them, Double-flower’d Cherry. remain two Years before they are 18. Cerasus ; (ylitris, fruttu rubro. F. B. they may tranfplanted: In the doing of which, you Common Wild Cherry. not to head them, as is by us; fylveftris, feptentrionalis An- muft obferve, 19, C for this, very often, is im~ glica, fruttu rubro, parvo ferotrino, Raii. Hift. many praGis'd; to them: but if theyfurvive Northern Englifb Cherry, with late mediate Death of them produce their Fruit-buds at their ex- five or fix Years. If thefe Trees are intended for a Wall, 1 would advife the planting Dwarfs between the Standards; fo that while the Dwarfs are fil» Cherry-Tree with ftrip’d Leaves. manyotherSorts of Cherries cul- ling the Bottom of the Walls, the Standards will cover the Tops, and will produce a great ed in curious Fruit-Gardens; as, the hervy, Lukeward, Corone, Gafcoigne, deal of Fruit: But thefe, as the Dwarfsarife ing-Branches of their proper Supply of Nourifhment, but, when theyare cut out, it occa fions the Tree to Gum in that Part; (for Cher- The Wild . ripe Fruit. 20, Cerasus; Jylveftris, amara, mahaleb ata. F. B. The Rock, or Perfum’d Cherry. asus; hortenfis, foliis eleganter varie- it, they feldom recover this Amputation in to fill the Walls, muft be cut away, to make he Sorts of Cherries which are ufually cultivated in Fruit-Gardens, are propagated g or Grafting the feveral Kinds, by Bu into Stocks of the Black, or Wild Red Cherries, which {trong Shooters, and of a longer Du ) than any of the Garden Kinds. The Stones of thefe two Kinds are fown in Beds of light Sandy Earth in Autumn, (or are preferv'd in Sand ’till Spring, and then fow’d): When thefe Stocks arife, they muft room for them: And when the Dwarf-trees do cover the Walls, the Standards fhould be intirely taken away. But I would advile, Never to plant Standard-Cherries ever other Fruits; for there isno other Sort of Fruit that will profper well under the Drip ofCherries. Whenthefe Trees are taken up from the Nurfery, their Roots muft be: fhortned, and e Part, which, when fhortned, are cut off: Branches fhould be therefore train’d in - th horizontally, obferving in May acancy in the Wall, to flop . oyning Branches, which will it two or more Shoots ; that Seafon of the Year, Ime ftrong occafionits by which you may always e time ht Shoots be difplac’d bythe fhould all fo they are fuffer’'d to grow till Hand; for if Winter, they will not only deprive the Bear- vies bear the Knife the worft ofany Sorts of ‘ul not to rub off ‘ruit-Trees): but be “ides or Spurs, which are produc’d upon the two and three Years old Wood; for it is upon thefe that the greateft part of the Fruit are produc’d ; which Fides will continue fruit- ful for feveral ¥ duly obferv are And it is for want of aution, that Cherry-Tree often feen fo unfruitful, efpecially the Morello, which, the more it is cut, the weaker andat laft, by frequent Pruning, I it {hoo own a whole Wall of them deftroy’d; i been fuffer’d to grow with- night probably have liv’d produc’d large Quantities of all the bruifed Parts cut off, as alfo all the {mall Fibres, which would dry, grow mouldy, weeded ; and if in dry Weather and be a great Prejudice to the new Fibres in yourefrefh them with Water, it will greatly their coming forth; you muft alfo cut offthe promote their Growth. Thefe young Stocks deadPart ofthe Stock which was left above fhould remain in thefe Nurfery Beds ’till the the Bud, clofe down to the back-part of it fecond Autumn after fowing, at which Time that the Stock maybe coyer’d. If thefe Trees you fhould prepare an open Spot of good are defign’d for a Wall, obferve to place the frefh Earth, which fhould be well work’d: Bud dire@ly from the Wall, that the back3ut if the Soil is frefh you'll need no Dung. part of the Stock that was cut maybe id In this Ground in Oétober you fhould plant from Sight. TheSoil that Cherries thrive beft get a Supply of Wood for covering the Wall: And at the be carefully out the young Stocks at three Feet Diftance, Rowfrom Row, and about ten Inches afun- der in the Rows; being careful, in taking them up from their Seed-beds, to loofen their Roots well with a Spade, to prevent their breaking ; as alfo to prune their Roots: And if they are inclinable to root downwards, you fhould fhorten the Tap-root, to caufe it to put out lateral Roots: But do not prune their Tops; for this is what by no means they will endure. The fecond Year after planting out, if they take to growing well, they will be fit to bud, if they are intended for Dwarfs: But if they are for Standards, theywill not be tall enough until the fourth Year; for they fhould be budded or grafted near fix Feet from the Ground ; for otherwife the Graft will not in, is a frefh Hazel Loam: But if the Soil is a dry Gravel, they will not live many Yearss andwill be perpetually blighted in the Spring: The Sorts commonly planted againft Walls are the Early May, and May-D which fhould have a Sonth=-Wall. The Hearts and the Morello on a North-Wall, which lait 1S chiefly planted for preferving. The f are all of them ill Bearers ; fl ich Reafon they are feldom planted ag ; : Butl am apt to believe, if they were grafted upo™ the Bird-Cherry, and manag’d properly, that Defe@ might be remedy’d; for this Stock (as I am inform’d) will render Cherrits very fruitful; and having the fame Effec on Cherries, as the Paradife Stock hath of Apples, they may be kept in lefs Cone walt ad, particularly in Kent, ere are large Plantations of thefe The ufual Diftance allow’d for their is forty Feet fquare, at whice Space s fubje& to Blight, than when they ed; and the Ground maybe yem oft as well as if it were , e{pecially while the Trees are and the often ftirring the Ground, 1 you do not difturb their Roots, will p the 7 : but when they are as to overfhadowthe Ground, t eaves will fuffer very few itive under them. Thefe StanId be planted in a Situation h as poffible from the ftrong nds, which is yery apt to break I es; this occafions their s very prejudicial to them. approvjd for an Orchard, are or Kentijb Cherry, the Duke, , all which are plentiful Bearers. s of thefe Trees are nowf{carcely ept where Landis very he Uncertainty of their Bearing, with the Trouble in Gathering the Fruit, together with the {mall Price it commonly yields, have occafion’d the deftroying many Orchards ofthis Fruit in Kent, within a few Yearspaft. This Fruit was brought out of Pontus, at the Time ofthe Mithridatick ViGory, by Lucullus, in the Year of the City 680, and were brought into Britaiz about 120 Years afterwards, which was Az. Dom, 55, and were foon after fpread through moft Parts of Europe; it being generalfy efteem’d for its Earlinefs, as being one of the firft of the Tree- Fruit that appears to welcome in the approaching Fruit-feafon. This Sort of Fruit hath been by many People grafted upon the Lawrel, to which it isa Congener: But what Effeé it hath either in the Growth of the Tree, or its Fruit, I have not been yet able to underftand; tho’ this Pra@ice is as old as Pliny, who {ays it gives the Fruit a very pleafant Bitternefs. The two Sorts ofBird Cherries are very fine Flowering Trees, and are commonly propagated in the Narferies, to intermix with Lilacs, Laburnums, and other Flowering Trees of larger Growth, where, by their Variety, they greatly diverfify the Profped. Thefe are alfo, by fome, us’d for Stocks, to bud and graft the more generous Kinds of Cherries on ; by which means theyare render'd more fruitful, and of lefler Growth: Thefe two Sorts are propagated by laying down their tender Branches in Autumn, whichin one Year’s time will have taken Root, and may be removd into a Nurfery, for any of the abovemention’d Purpofes. The two Sorts of Double-flowering Cherries are alfo propagated for the Beautyoftheir Flowers, which, of the very Double Kind, are extremelyfine, the Flowers being as double and as a Cinnamon-Rofe; andthefe being produced in large Bunches on every Part of the Tree, renders it one of the moft beutiful Trees of the Spring. The other Sort, which is les Double, will often produce fome Fruit which the very double Sort doth not; but this Defe@is {ufficiently recompenc’d, in the Beauty ofits Flowers. Thefe are propa by Budding or Grafting them on the 4 Wild Cherry Stock, and are proper to intermix with the larger Sort of Flowering Trees. The Wild Northern Cherry is of no Ufe or Beauty, andis only preferved by the Curious, in Colle@ions ofthe different Sorts of Trees ; as is alfo the Machaleb or Perfum’d Cherry, which is a free Shooter, and perhaps mayferve for Stocks to improve the other Kinds ofCher= ries, as growing well in almoft anySoil ; but there is neither Ufe or Beauty in the Flowers or Fruit of it. The Strip’d-Leav’d Cherry is properin a Colleton ofvariegated Trees, as adding to the Variety. CERATIA; vidi Siliqua Edulis. CEREFOLIUM;; vide Chzrefolium: CEREUS. The Torch-Thiftle: Thefe are all American Plants, where the Fruit _ are eaten as Figs: They lic in the Way in great |