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Two years ago this winter our orchard trees were badly injured, 

 and it looked in the spring as if we would lose them all. About 

 one-third have already died, and the remaining old trees are not in a 

 good condition. The frost during that winter separated or loosened 

 the bark from the trunks of the trees, throwing it off in many in- 

 stances entirely around the trees. They (the trees) are making 

 efforts to recover by closing the bark around the dead trunks, and 

 where it still remained attached it is healing up; but the trees will 

 continue to die and will soon be all gone; yet the trees bore a good 

 crop last year, and the cherries were very abundant. The young 

 trees in the nursery were not materially injured and made a good 

 growth the summer following; am happy to say that cherry trees 

 have but few enemies. The slug that defoliates the trees are disap- 

 pearing, and but comparatively few were seen last year. The cur- 

 culios attack the fruit and are quite troublesome at times; still we 

 generally have plenty, and some to spare. Thousands of dollars are 

 spent here each year on sweet cherry trees, which is worse than 

 thrown away, as not only is the money lost, but time also. It seems 

 to be a good place for unprincipled men to unload their sweet cherry 

 trees. The manner in which it is done, and the means used to do it, 

 makes it swindling and robbery; still, as long as people will allow 

 themselves to be swindled, swindlers will be found to do the dirty 



work. 



DISCUSSIOJ^. 



Prof. Budd — I have the Northwestern, the Galusha and the 

 Flagg, all of which are very promising, especially the Northwestern, 

 which we are now sending out to our Experimental Stations. I 

 consider it better than the Montmorency. The M'ontmorency Extra- 

 ordinary is the variety sent out by the eastern firms, and I have 

 found that it holds its leaves much better than the Richmond. The 

 Ostheim is a large family of cherries; small tree, small twig, fruit 

 very small. In Germany it is a fine cherry, and nearly sweet. I do 

 not think budded cherries are as good as root grafted. If you allow 

 cherry grafts to start in the cellar before setting out, they will not 

 grow; but if kept in a dormant state they will. 



Mr. Small — Is the Early Richmond better on its own stock 

 than on others? On my father's place there are from fifty to one 

 hundred trees that are on their own roots, which have borne full 

 crops for several years and are still in a good, healthy condition, 

 while other trees have died. 



Mr. Minier — I find no difficulty in keeping away curculio. As 

 soon as a tree sheds its blossoms I shake it every day. Pigs are bet- 

 ter than chickens to destroy worms. 



