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is living; while another orchard, grafted on the Morello, is in good, 

 healthy condition, and bears well. I like the Mazzard stock, if the roots 

 are planted deep, out of the way of severe frosts. 



Dr. Humphrey thought budding the cherry was preferable to 

 grafting. 



Mr. McWhorter had never found any one who had made a com- 

 plete success in grafting ; the cherry-budding is best. 



Mr. Dennis advised growing the Early Richmond cherry on its own 

 roots; he found that the trees lived longer and bore better crops. It 

 certainly seemed like the true way to grow the Early Richmond. It had 

 been, in his experience, a marked success. 



President Hammond said that there was now a great many of these 

 trees in the country. In Hancock county they are generally distributed. 

 Some t\venty-five or thirty years ago the branches of the Early Richmond 

 were layered, and from this sprang the trees on their own roots. The 

 tree is longer lived, bears more certainly and more abundantly than other 

 trees, and is every way better. 



Mr. Wier, whose experience is often very remarkable and diverse 

 from those of his brethren, said that the Early Richmond, on its own 

 roots, is just as long lived and just as good as any other, but no better. 

 In regard to the Morello and Mahaleb stocks, he said : My experience has 

 been just the reverse of Mr. Kinney's. I have cherry trees grafted on the 

 Mahaleb that are twenty-five years old, and they are still sound trees, 

 while those grafted on the Morello were gone long ago. Besides, we do 

 not want cherry trees that throw up sprouts, like the Morello does. 

 Again, about this matter of budding and grafting, as to preference there 

 is no difference; one is good, and so is the other. There is one objection 

 to grafting on the Mahaleb, it is not hardy ; but graft under the ground 

 and you will have the same thing as a tree on its own roots. 



Mr. Kinney — I have no trees more than fifteen years old ; those on 

 the Mahaleb were the first to die ; I do not know that it is from the cold. 

 They seem to die all the same, whether the winters are "hard or soft;" 

 die from some unknown cause. 



Voice — What is your subsoil ? 



Mr. Kinney — It is a stiff clay, three or four feet deep. 

 Mr. Wier — Would you call it a rich soil? 



Mr. Kinney — You would call it a. good soil. I call that a good soil 

 that will grow a good crop of corn. 



