24 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



CHEERIES. 



What has been said with regard to the cultivation and management of 

 peaches is equally applicable to the cherry, even to the use of the lime. 

 One exception, perhaps, might be mentioned, and that is pruning. The 

 cherry requires but little pruning, just enough to prevent limbs crossing 

 and the trees becoming too thick. 



In my experience I have found but three varieties that will pay to grow 

 for market, and they are all sour: Early Richmond, Montmorenci, and 

 English Morello, mentioned in the order of their ripening. 



There are some of the sub-acid and sweet cherries that are very fine for 

 eating. I will mention my choice of these : Belle de Choicy ( of the Duke 

 class). Gov. Wood, and Black Tartarian (of the Bigarreau type). The two 

 former are very hardy. The Tartarian is rather tender for a cold section. 



Mr. Robinson. Peachgrowing is becoming a very important industry 

 in Mason county. I notice a tendency to head the trees too high. 

 Pruning should be so done as to form a low and symmetrical head. 



Mr. QuACKENBOS: Is Crane's Early Yellow a desirable variety? 



Mr. GuLLEY: It is one of the new and hopeful kinds; yellow, ripening 

 at the season of the Lewis, to which it is preferable; and it is hardy so far, 

 but it is not much known. Mountain rose is tender in its buds but withal 

 does very well. All varieties of the peach tree should be headed low. 

 Oldmixon, an excellent white variety, is objectionable on the same grounds 

 as the Crawfords, yet does well where peaches generally do well. Golden 

 Drop and Smock are likely to be too late so far north as Mason county. 

 Snow's Orange is much the same as Barnard. Hill's Chili is a standard 

 sort and very hardy. Near the lake the matter of the slope of the land is 

 not of much importance, but further back a western slope is preferable. 

 There are plenty of good orchards upon the brink of the lake at South 

 Haven, but some have windbreaks and they are beneficial, especially 

 against severe winds late in the season. 



Mr. Morrill warned the Mason county growers against yellows and 

 urged them to have commissioners appointed in each township. Yellows, 

 he said, killed a million of trees in Berrien county when they were bearing 

 so full that they loaded three steamboats each day and sold for 75 cents to 

 $2.25 per basket. He recited provisions of the law, and assured the grow- 

 ers that new trees might safely be jalanted where diseased trees had been 

 removed. 



CURCULIO AND CUTWORMS. 



Mr. Gulley: " Mr. Stearns, by use of his lime and acid, only drives the 

 curculio off from his own trees and on to those of neighboring plantations. 

 I believe that were this practice generally engaged in, the curculio would 

 stay right where they were. 



Mr. Reid said he had observed the efficiency of this remedy in Mr. 

 Stearns' orchards and believed that its general use would drive the 

 curculio back to the forests, whence they came, or exterminate them. 



Mr. Garfield agreed with Mr. Gulley and thought the remedy one of 

 very doubtful moral status. 



Mr. Morrill: We are greatly troubled, in the southern part of the 

 state, by cutworms ascending peach trees and grapevines and eating off 

 the buds or young shoots. I was never able to stop them until I used 



