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and appears to do best on very poor gravelly clay land, as on such land 

 it makes a slower growth and seems to be more hardy and productive 

 than when grown on a rich soil. 



I have been looking for years for a sweet cherry that would stand 

 our climate, and believe that I have at last found it. About 1896 I read 

 in one of the bulletins of the Iowa Experiment Station of a sweet cherry, 

 the Vilne Sweet, that was said to have withstood the cold of northern 

 Iowa since 1882, and in the spring of 1897 procured two small trees one 

 year old from bud. They both lived and have made good growth, and 

 in 1900 one of them matured som.e fruit, which was very large and fine. 

 These trees stood the winter of 1898-9 without losing even a tip bud,, 

 although other varieties of sweet cherries, peaches and native, domestic 

 and Japan plums went down all around them. I have so much faith in 

 this cherry and am so well pleased with its hardiness and the quality of 

 its fruit that I shall plant it largeh*, as soon as I can succeed in raising- 

 the trees. 



On the subject of planting cherries, I have learned but little, if any- 

 thing, since writing on that subject for the Princeton meeting in 1899, 

 and it is useless to take up the time of the Society in listening to a 

 rehash of what I know on that subject, so will say that any one wishing 

 to read what I know about planting cherries are referred to the 42nd 

 annual report of the ]^Iissouri*State Horticultural Society at page 211. 



Discussion on Cherries. 



J. J. Kiser. — I have a lot of wrecks of cherries. The winter made 

 a wreck of my English Alorello. I haven't any on the place now. I like 

 the Dyehouse and Earl}- Richmond. I think I will let the other varie- 

 ties go. 



Prof. Dutcher of Warrensburg. — Have any of you had experience 

 with the Magnum or , Governor ^\'ood ? 



Judge Aliller of Bluffton, ]\Io. — Yes ; I have and think it is the best 

 cherry in the United States. I have had trees four or five years to bear 

 7 bushels on them. Is an annual bearer. I have one Governor Wood, 

 too, but the birds got most of them. 



Member. — I have traveled quite a good deal, but I have never found 

 anything that will beat the Wragg. 



W. A. Gardner — Distribution of Apples. — I have had but very little 

 experience with the distribution of the apple. Those who have been the 

 most successful are the Californians. Xow. there is an advantage in 

 selling on the track, if we can get the prices. When we are selling on the 

 track, are we not confining ourselves to the buyers proposition? We 

 must have our own proposition. Our California people found that out 



