The VCBF got Douglas Justice to show how to plant a cherry tree some years ago. I can't believe I've never posted a link to it. Here it is:
Doug Justice's advice from several years ago on how to plant a cherry tree coincides with that of the Garden Professors (Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott's and Jim Downer). Problems with Planting Trees It's going to take a long time I think before people abandon their old ideas about planting holes being twice as wide and deep as the pot the tree arrived in and I would be willing to believe too if the soil in my current garden was not mostly rock.