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than Early Eichmond and more than twice as large with smaller pit. 

 It stood last winter without damage and bore a full crop this year. 

 Mr. Jones, cashier Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, and I are having it 

 propagated for our own planting. We have none for sale. This 

 cherry will be watched and I predict that it has a future. I hope to be 

 able next summer, with Mr. Chamberlain's courtesy, to send s'^-ne 

 specimens to the officers of this society. 



PRUNING, PLANTING, CULTIVATION, GATHERING AND 

 MARKETING OF THE CHERRY. 



By W. H. Skinuer, Bethany, Mo. 



The subject assigned me for this sketch might well be divided into 

 five separate papers, each of which, when it had fully and carefully 

 considered its subjects, would be too long to present at a meeting of this 

 kind, without becoming wearisome. I shall, therefore, but briefly 

 outline the various work on the cherry tree, from the time it reaches 

 the premises of the orchardist until its matured fruit is placed in the 

 hands of the consumer, and in the beginning will say that my experi- 

 ence in planting cherries has not been as satisfactory as in planting 

 other kinds of trees for my losses in planting my cherry orchard 

 of 450 trees has been mors than double what I have lost in 

 planting over 2,000 other orchard trees. But this I attribute largely 

 to the condition of the trees when received. I believe that if I could 

 get cherry trees that were dug, and immediately shipped, instead of 

 being cellared over winter, there would be less failure to grow, as of 

 the cherry trees of my own ^propagation dug and immediately planted 

 I have had no loss. 



I shall somewhat transpose the text and touch first on planting, 

 as my experience with cherries is that there should be but little if any 

 pruning at time of planting. 



Cherries should be planted in this part of the country only in the 

 spring, as our cold dry winter winds have a tendency to extract the 

 moigture from the tree, and the roots being short, with but little 



