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skin is tough, making it a good shipping variety; ripens June 25th. 

 Wragg makes a low-spreading tree, with fruit of medium size, dark 

 red, aad of very good quality when fully ripe; ripens June 25th. 

 Weirs No. 2, inferior and not recommended for this locality. Bessara- 

 bian would be a fine variety if it were more productive, but thus far it 

 has produced very sparingly ; the fruit is large, dark red and of good 

 quality, and ripens about June 20lh. Cerise de Ostheim is a round- 

 topped tree, the branches somewhat pendulous in growth ; it seems to 

 be one of the best varieties of its class that we have fruited ; the fruit 

 is medium in size, of a dark color when fully ripe ; flesh, firm and ten- 

 der, juicy and rich, and the tree yields [a heavy crop every year. 

 Frauendorfer is a strong-growing tree, with large dark red fruit, tender 

 and juicy ; as yet it has not been prolific enough to warrant us in recom- 

 mending it for general cultivation. Carnation is a sweet cherry of 

 great promise; the fruit is very large, bright red, rich and meaty; it 

 ripens about June 8th, and is a most excellent variety,for family use. — 

 J. Tro3p, Lifayette, Ind., in Garden and Forest. 



CHERRY TREES. 



Most farmers would find it better and cheaper to purchase cherry 

 trees of some reputable nurseryman than to attempt to grow the 

 stocks and bud or graft them. As this is contrary to the advice given 

 for other trees, I will give my reason for it. The nurserymen have lit- 

 tle or no difficulty in procuring seed from seedling trees which have 

 not been grafted, such as will make the best stocks, or from those in 

 which the buds did not live, and it requires more skill, or at least more 

 care, to successfully bud the cherry than the peach or plum, owing to 

 the liability of the bark to peel off and curl away from the bud or scion. 



There are some kinds which will grow true to the parent stock 

 from the seed, with only occasional sports, and upon them and not on 

 budded trees do the growers depend for their seeds. 



The cherry will grow like the plums upon almost any soil unless 

 very wet, but likes best a deep, rich loam. The different varieties 

 vary somewhat in this, as they do in their habits of growth. Some 

 sorts upon strong and rather moist soil will spread their limbs until 

 they would touch at 50 feet apart, while others grow more upright and 

 would not touch at 15 feet apart. Where land is plenty we should 

 give abundant room, preferring to have as much of a low, wide-spread- 

 ing tree as we could get, while close planting would have a tendency 

 to make upright growth. In a village lot I have seen them growing 



