THE CHERRY AND THE CHERRY TREE. 



AN ESSAY READ AT THE SPRING LAKE MEETING OF THE STATE POMO- 



LOGICAL SOCIETY, BY GEORGE PARMELEE, ESQ., 



OF OLD MISSION. 



Gentlemen": — The present time for a discussion of the subject of cherry 

 cultivation is probably well chosen. Seeing as we do the beauties and excel- 

 lencies of this acceptable little fruit only retrospectively, our discussions may 

 be presumed to take the channels of sober second thought, rather than to take 

 on the appearance of extravaganza and sentimentality, which might happen 

 were this discussion at a time of the year when this charming fruit could be 

 present with all its attractions of beauty and excellence. 



ITS SEASON", 



following closely the strawberry, and extending to the heat of early summer, 

 with its many practical culinary uses, its delicious and refreshing flavor, and 

 perfect beauty, are so many reasons for its receiving, during its supremacy, our 

 unqualified admiration. 



SOUR AND SWEET CHERRIES. 



The class of cherries known as sour cherries, being generally hardy, are 

 raised more or less and are pretty well known to the mass of the people, while 

 those that we term sweet cherries, being more tender in the tree and subject 

 to more accidents, are much less cultivated. And it may be safe to say that not 

 more than one person in four in the whole country ever regaled himself with 

 a generous feast of the fine sorts. Good housewives understand the various 

 uses of the sour cherries, but perhaps some have yet to learn that the dark 

 English Morello, when dried, gives to fruit-cake a finer flavor than perhaps any 

 other foreign or domestic fruit. 



THE VARIETIES 



of sour cherries most in cultivation are so easily raised that little need be said 

 to a novice who may comtemplate planting them. They put up with fence 

 corners and neglect generally with as good grace as any other fruit tree, and 

 "Will usually fruit in what would be called, for tender fruits, unfavorable local- 

 ities. 



