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The above sliould be well considered by all growers of this kind 

 of fruit, and all other kinds. 



Next in order comes 



THE CHERRY. 



I will say but little of them as I have never grown any for 

 market — only for my own use. But have tried many kinds and 

 see many kinds in bearing. The kinds that grow and bear the 

 best are the Early Eichmond, May, and Common English Morello, 

 red and black. We always have cherries when these kinds are 

 jjlanted. Some say they are not as good as the so-called finer kinds, 

 yet I like them better than the so-called finer kinds. In my opin- 

 ion some kinds of cherries, so-called good, are worthless for this 

 section. The few I mentioned, without a doubt, are better grow- 

 ers than all others. The Morello's can be seen in nearly every lot, 

 yard, &c., on nearly every farm : grows and does well in nearly all 

 this western country — in fact were it not for this kind, we would 

 be almost without cherries. Scarcely any care is ever bestowed 

 upon them. They sprout from the root, and this is generally dis- 

 liked. 



I will not say anything of apricots and nectarines, as I have 

 never seen any profit in raising them. 



The plum I will speak of next and last, of which I have had 

 some little experience of several kinds — foreign and our native 

 plums. 



Of the whole list I have but little use, in this section, for any 

 except the Wild Goose, Miner, Weaver and Newman, and I might 

 add the common little blue damson. The first two mentioned are 

 the best, in my opinion, for this entire western country. They are 

 less subject to the curculio, while the others are ravished by this 

 insect to such an alarming extent as to cause the almost total 

 destruction and failure of the crop. The finer varieties, so-called, 

 notwithstanding all the remedies advocated and applied with 

 vigilance, are continually being destroyed by the curculio, and it is 

 this kind that are tlio most liable to its attack. The insect, so 

 far, has proven too strong and numerous, except in a few places 

 where eternal vigilance and unusual pains have been taken to guard 

 against them, and they are only partly successful, now-a-days, I 

 have found from my own and other's experience, that the labor and 

 attention required to grow a few of these plums so subject to the 

 pest, are worth more than the results. 



