This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V27", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
Notwithstanding the English climate is peculiarly a cherry one, and "cherry-ripe," in season, one of the most familiar of London cries, the wealthy classes with whom excellence is more of a consideration than the mere price per lb., grow them in glass-houses, and get fruit of near double the size, and of greatly increased beauty and flavor. Lately attempts to grow them in pots and tubs under glass, instead of in the open ground under glass, have been so successful that it is believed the pot plan will become general.
 
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