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CHERRY TREE PROBLEM.
"CM," Murray, writes:-I have some
well-established. cherry trees. A
little distance off I found some
young cherry trees evidently seed-
lings. Are these any use for plant-
ing out? Will they fruit?
Most probably if you make careful ex-
amination you will find that the young
cherry trees arc not seedlings, but suck-
ers growing from thc roots of the old
trees. If so, they will serve very well
for stocks for budding, hut arc hardly
likely to prove of much value for fruit-
ing. Usually the wild or Kentish cherry
' is used for slocks for the commercial
! kinds, and thc suckers will be likely to
be of the same wild variety. At the
same time it is quite possible that thc
stones from the cherries which have
dropped or have been thrown on the
ground may have grown, so that thc
idea of the young trees being seedlings
may be correct* If so, they would serve
admirably for stocks for budding com
mcrial kinds on, and it might be easily |
that some of them would prove valuable
for commercial purposes; but the only¡
way to test the matter would be by
planting thc trees out, looking after
them and allowing them to mature and.
fruit. Supposing they did not turn out
to bc suitable varieties, the trees could
j thcn"be cut back and grafted or budded.
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