We remember, some years ago, a neighbor bought a hundred cherry trees, and set them out in an orchard, and began to manure and treat them in every respect as he had done bis apple orchard, which was in thriving condition. In a year or two many of the trees burst their bark, turned black, and part died ; this continued until three-fourths of the whole were dead, or nearly so, being quite worthless. It was evident to the farmer that he had killed the trees by his kindness, and he stopped manuring, sowed his land down to grass, and thus saved them. What would do for the apple tree would not do for the cherry. We know another orchard, now some years old, that we set out for a neighbor, where the trees have been kept in grass ever since the second year after they were set. These trees have made a good, sound, healthy growth each year, and latterly, even for ten years past, except a single year, have borne good crops of fruit. There is not a more healthy cherry orchard in the country. These trees have never suffered from the bursting of the bark, nor from warts. - Journal of Horticulture.

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This rule for cultivating cherry trees in grass is now so well-established by proofs of success, that we think fruit growers will do well to adopt it generally.