68 State Horticultural Society. 



profitable also in a commercial way. I would plant a cherry orchard 

 preferably to any other. It bears more regularly and heavily on good 

 strong land than on thin, gravelly soil. But even there it will grow. 

 The varieties mentioned are best. 



Mr. Pontius — I have seen the cherry tried on a variety of soils, rocky, 

 gravelly, rich and heavy and clay, but the growth is twice as rapid on a 

 dark gravel as on any of the others. 



Mr. Barnes — Last winter killed many of the cherry trees in Kansas, 

 and a fungus disease affected the leaves so that they dropped early. 



Mr. Gano — I have had moderate success with cherries, and nothing 

 gives an equal revenue. Select high, dry, good soil. I believe in cultivation ; 

 they need cultivation same as other fruits. We disc harrow until July, 

 the same as for peaches. The Early Richmond and Morello sprouts come 

 true to name and give better fruit and larger crops than any nursery 

 trees. Three or four hundred trees with cherries, as now, selling at 

 $2.00 and 2.50 per crate in the Kansas City market, would certainly pay- 

 By all means grow some, and the sprouts make the best trees that you 

 can plant.. 



Mr. Dutcher — I have an Early Richmond tree which has given 35 

 gallons per year for five years. It has had no cultivation except a small 

 space around the body for three years, and is growing in blue grass sod. 

 It stands on high, well-drained soil ; the soil we made good in grading. 



Mr. Tippin — They succeed well without cultivation, but also with it. 

 I have one tree that for seventeen years has had good crops. 



Mr. Goodman — Do not buy Morello type on Mazzard stock, it will 

 never pay you. What you want is to have them on Mahaleb or Morello 

 root. The Early Richmond roots sprout badly, but on Mahaleb you get 

 an early-bearing good tree. They are more hardy on the Morello stock, 

 that is, on the Early Richmond or English Morello, not the old common 

 Morello root. This Ozark region is a little too far south for profit in 

 cherry growing, but on the Missouri river bluffs I had no fruit that paid 

 better. With the best of care here, south, they shed their leaves in the 

 middle of July and summer-kill. My advice is a limited planting on good 

 soil, the highest in the country. 



THE BEST OF OUR PLUMS: EUROPEAN, JAPAN AND 



NATIVE. 



(By J. H. Marion, Rusk, Texas.) 



This subject will not be a long one-, because my experience in this 

 line is limited to but few varieties. Of European, Lombard is the only 



