480 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The orchard shown in Fig. 77 may be taken as a raodel, except that 

 the trees are too close together. 



Tlie English Morello will bear a fair crop the third year after 

 setting, if two-year trees are planted. The Montmoi'ency is a year 

 or two later in corning into bearing. The Montmorency, partly 

 because of its larger growth, produces much more fruit than the 

 other, when it arrives at full bearing. Individual trees of Mont- 

 moreucy at six years and upwards may bear from 30 to 75 pounds 

 of fruit ; but Mr. Scoon considers 8 to 10 tons of marketable fruit 

 to be an excellent crop on an orchard of 800 Montmorency s eight 

 years planted — that is, an average of 20 to 25 pounds to the tree. 

 The Morellos, because of their dark color, usually sell better than 

 the Montmorency in the open market, but the reverse is now 

 generally true if the crop is sold to canning factories. This year the 

 factories have paid five and six cents a pound for Montmorencys. 

 It is easy to figure the proceeds of an acre. At 18 x 18 ft. an acre 

 will comprise about 130 trees. If, at eight years, they yield 20 

 pounds each, the crop would amount to 2,600 pounds, which, at 5 

 cents, means $130. This is a conservative estimate. Benjamin 

 Kean, Seneca, has 200 Montmorency trees six years set. He has 

 had three crops, one of 1,400 pounds, one of 3,000 pounds, and one 

 3,100 pounds. He sold his entire crop this year for 5 cents, 

 making a gross income of $155. His trees are set 10 x 12 ft., which 

 allows about 360 to the acre. In other words, a crop which sold for 

 over one hundred and fifty dollars was taken from less than two- 

 thirds of an acre. The soil, in this case, seems to be unusually well 

 adapted to this cherry and the crops have, therefore, been excellent ; 

 but, on the other hand, part of the crop was destroyed this year by 

 curculio. C. H. Perkins, Newark, has 35 trees, 8 and 12 years old, 

 all Montmorency. " They bear," he writes, " from 2,000 to 3,500 

 pounds of cherries per year, and the average price we get for them 

 is 6 cents. They net us from $100 to $175 a year. They are the 

 most regular and sure cropper of any fruit we have ever tried to 

 grow, and the fruit always finds a ready market at a good price." 

 The Maxwell orchard at Geneva yielded over 11 tons, Montmo- 

 rency, this year, from 800 trees. 



My reader will now want to order enough cherry trees to plant 

 his farm. But he should go slow. It may be laid down as a 

 principle that no crop will bring uniformly great rewards over a 

 series of years. These results with sour cherries are obtained 



