February, 1922 



queen of all cherries and is eagerly sought 

 after by the canneries. The Governor 

 Wood and Long Stem Waterhouse are 

 canned to a limited degree, as are also the 

 Black Tartarian and Black Republican. 

 However, the real value of these four varie- 

 ties is in pollination. 



Sour Varieties — The Montmorency 

 Large and English Morello are each good 

 canning cherries. The former is especially 

 sought after by the ranneries. The sour 

 cherries are late bloomers and are scarcely 

 ever injured by late spring frosts. 



The May Duke is a very early semi- 

 sweet cherry and is planted mostly for 

 home use. 



Pollination — The two leading varieties 

 of sweet cherries, Bings and Royal Anne, 

 are sterile and require pollen from some 

 other variety in order to make them set 

 their fruit. 



For the Bing it is best to use both the 

 Black Tartarian and Black Republican as 

 pollenizers. The Black Tartarian begins 

 to bloom from two or three days ahead of 

 the Bing and is through by the time the 

 Bing is half through. Just here the Black 

 Republican starts in and finishes after the 

 Bing. By this combination the Bing has 

 pollen coming from one or other of these 

 varieties all the time it is in bloom, thus 

 insuring a crop. 



For the Royal Anne the Governor Wood 

 or Long Stem Waterhouse makes a splendid 

 pollenizer. While the canneries take these 

 two varieties at a considerable less price, 

 the trees bear so prolifically that, as a. rule, 

 they pay very well. 



Artificial Pollination — The essential 

 thing in getting a pollenizer to be effective 

 is to get it to bloom at the same time as 

 the one needing the pollen, and then 

 bringing them close enough together for 

 the insects to distribute the pollen. 



E. Bowles, the famous cherry grower of 

 Prosser, Washington, whose crop in 1919 

 from seven acres was nearly fifty tons of 

 cherries, made some of his Black Republi- 

 can trees bloom a few days earlier in order 

 that they would pollenize the Bings. This 

 was done by putting up a large sheet of 

 canvas on the north side of the trees which 

 reflected the heat back into the tree. This 

 brought the blossoms out from 2 to 3 days 

 earlier and the crop he got proves his efforts 

 were not in vain. 



One large tree in the orchard had never 

 borne any crop worth while, .as it was too 

 far remote from a pollenizer. Mr. Bowles 

 determined to make it bear, and tried 

 hanging out from one to two dozen fruit 

 jars filled with water and bunches of 

 blossoms from the pollenizer tree in this 

 tree. The insects then did their part by 

 liberally carrying pollen from these blos- 

 soms to the ones on the tree. The results 

 were phenomenal. The tree produced 

 really a heavier crop than it should. Thus, 

 if we only lend nature a helping hand, 

 she will repav us many fold. 



BETTER FRUIT 



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The Bings, Royal Annes and Lamberts most any other sweet cherry and many 

 are not only sterile, but intersterile as to each seedlings that bloom at the same time they 

 other, however, they are pollenized by do. {Continued on fage 18) 



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