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Summary of Cherry Culture and Production 



POLLENIZERS are necessary. The 

 Bing cherry is probably as nearly 

 self-sterile as any fruit tree to be 

 found; and unfortunately neither Anns 

 nor Lamberts will pollenize it. We 

 have only three popular commercial 

 sweet cherries; and when these three 

 are planted together, with no other 

 cherry in the neighborhood, the Lam- 

 berts and Anns bear light crops and the 

 Bings almost nothing at all. These 

 varieties, with Governor Woods and 

 seedlings, pollenize well, though some 

 seedlings are worthless for the purpose. 

 I am told that Republicans, Tartarians 

 and most sour cherries will pollenize 

 our high-grade cherries; and if so they 

 aret he ones to plant, as they have more 

 market value than Woods. There 

 should be four or five pollenizers to the 

 acre, and set as far apart from each 

 other as possible. 



Fertility of the soil must be kept up. 

 I keep from one to two thousand chick- 

 ens in the orchard and have them dis- 

 tributed to suit the needs of the trees. 

 This gives all the fertilizer the trees 

 can use to advantage. A cherry orchard 

 makes an ideal run for chickens; and 

 chickens, when properly managed, are 

 little hindrance to the crop. 



Gummosis is a much-talkcd-of disease 

 of the cherry. I know nothing of it 

 from the scientist's standpoint, and I 

 am quite skeptical in regard to it. Prac- 



By E. Bowles, Prosser, Washington 



tically all cherry trees gum more or 

 less, no matter how healthy they may 

 be; but so far as my observation has 

 gone, excessive gumming is a result and 

 not a cause. Scale is a common cause, 

 but there are scores of others. Any 

 condition which brings death to the 

 tree is likely to cause the tree to gum 

 while it is dying. 



Smudging is expensive in labor and 

 money. But in my orchard it is a 

 necessity. Six years ago I lost out, but 

 for five successive years have not lost 

 a crop, and I would not think of risk- 

 ing the fruit without this protection. 

 For light frost, a small area can be pro- 

 tected; but for heavy freezes not less 

 than live or ten acres is practical, the 

 larger the easier. 



Spring dropping of the fruit is usu- 

 ally due lo one of three causes: 1. Fail- 

 ure lo pollenize. In this case Hie drop- 

 ping is all at once, at the time the shell 

 should burst. You see scores of little 

 ones witli now and then a hit; om- thai 

 is alive. -• frosted cherries at this 

 sta.^r lorn black at once and are easily 



detected. When frosted later they often 



appear sound for a week or two and 

 then fall. 3. Lack of food causes enor- 

 mous loss among cherry trees in gen- 

 eral. This often continues lor several 

 weeks almost the entire lime from 

 blossom lo harvest And you may see 

 dead cherries of all sizes. 



Three pests visit the sweet cherry: 

 1. Scale is probably the worst one, but 

 it is easily controlled with lime-sulphur 

 if the work is thorough. 2. The slug, 

 like the scale, will also hurry a cherry 

 tree to an untimely death, but it is very 

 easy to control with arsenate of lead. 

 The slug hatch about the middle of 

 cherry picking, and must not be 

 allowed to strip the trees. The best 

 method is to spray with the calyx spray 

 for apples. This will tide over the har- 

 vest lime and usually kills both June 

 and August broods. 3. The black aphis 

 is hard to control, and I have seen no 

 spiay or treatment justify the expense. 

 Yet I do not consider the aphis any 

 greal hindrance to Hie cherry industry. 

 Aphis are very bad with the ground 

 weedy or grassy, or dusty ridge in the 

 tree row, or strawy manure near the 

 tree; also follow with the pruning 

 shears. Aphis are seldom serious with 

 clean, level and frequent cultivation 

 and with ample watering, especially 



near the tree. 



Mahaleb or mazzard, which? Of 

 these Iwo roots neither is entirely satis- 

 factory for sweet cherries. Imagine a 

 while-oak on a jack-oak slump, and you 

 see a Bing on a mahaleb as it some- 

 times appears. The mahaleb is too 



small: and the union is often imperfect. 

 The mazzard root with the Bing pro- 

 duces scant crops of blossoms, and an 



