212 State Horticultural Society. 



THE ORCHARD. 



Loveliest of trees, tlie clierry, now 



Is huug with bloom along the bough, 



And stands about the woodland wide 



Wearing white for Eastertide. 



And since, to look at things in bloom. 



Fifty Springs were little room, 



About the woodlands I will go 



To see the cherry hung with snow. 



— Farm Journal 



Apple a day, keep the doctor away— 

 Apple at night, starve him outright- 

 Apple each meal, and one for sleep. 

 Kill liim and shroud him and bury him deep! 



CHERRIES. 



Note from Nebraska Meeting. 



The experience of one fruit grower showed that the Early Richmond 

 cherry tree has superior longevity, trees purchased in 1872 bearing 

 cherries this year. The Montmorency is next in value. The latter cherry 

 may be left on the tree a week after being ripe enough to sell and can 

 wait until the glut passes by or for a better market. The English Morello 

 may remain on even longer, from three to four weeks, and continually 

 improve in quality. Mr. Harris gave his method of growing cherries, 

 and his success in producing vigorous trees of large size and great bear- 

 ing qualities was apparent from the statement that from one large Mont- 

 ir.orency tree this season he gathered seventy-two bushels of cherries 

 and sold them at $1.50 a bushel. The branches of his best tree had a 

 spread of twenty feet. Each autumn he mulches the ground about the 

 tree, as far out as the branches extend, with stable litter. This prevents 

 the ground from drying out and enriches the soil. Each spring this is 

 spaded in. — Prairie Farmer. 



