4i8 State Horticultural Society. 



bursting of the bark and exposure of the heart wood. Varieties : May 

 Duke, Late Duke, etc. 



The Hearts are famous for eating qualities, the largest and sweet- 

 est of all. Varieties : Governor Wood, Yellow Spanish, Bigarreau, 

 Black Tartarian, Royal Ann, etc. 



Location. — The cherry orchard should be planted on high, rolling 

 well-drained soil, for the tree will not live, but surely die, if on springy, 

 wet land. Even in low places on uplands, if water will stand in wet 

 times only, it will not thrive, but gradually die out. 



The Heart cherries thrive best on upland sandy loam, and I gathered 

 a good crop on one of the sandy bluffs near Benton Harbor, Mich., not 

 far from the lake, grown on large, healthy trees. The Black Tartarian 

 were a very full crop, but all rotted on the trees from wet and muggy 

 weather after they were ripe within two days. That location was very 

 fine for Morellos, and Dukes also, the Moreilos being the main crop for 

 yield and profit. 



The article in November number of the American Truck Farmer, 

 now The Farm Money Maker, by Prof. A. T. Erwin, shows that Oregon 

 is the location for sweet cherries, where the yield is both large and 

 constant, and that they are planting for profit hundreds of acres. The 

 size there is wonderfully large, a minimum of seven-eighths of an 

 inch for canning purposes. What must they be for the choice selec- 

 tions? They look in the crate like plums, and a correspondent of the 

 Western Fruit Grower says in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, he saw 

 some of the grandest old cherry orchards, over fifty years old, bearing 

 in some cases two hundred gallons to the tree, and a cherry that 

 measured one and one-fourth inches in diameter. Surely a glorious 

 paradise is Oregon, and they must make two bites of a cherry there. 



It is a genuine pleasure to find some locality where the sweet cherry 

 is at home, for on our heavy soils in Missouri and Kansas the repeated 

 experiments to make a success of the sweet cherry has been a continual 

 failure. In an orchard of my own planting in Eastern Kansas, on high, 

 rolling upland, and a stiff", loamy clay of not over six inches of soil, 

 underlaid with hard pan, I set out 150 cherry trees in 1888. They were 

 Early Richmond mostly, with some, so called, English Morello and a 

 selection of Montmorency. The Richmonds paid well, the English 

 Morello never paid, the crops being light when the Richmonds were full. 

 The fruit was one-sided, knotty and wormy, while the Richmonds were 

 sound and smooth. The Montmorencies were not in it at all, as they 

 all proved to be Richmonds when they came to bear. I had planted a 

 few May Duke and Governor Wood, which grew finely, made beauti- 



