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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



THE CHErtRY AND PLUM ORCHARD IN SEPTEMBER 

 AND OCTOBER. 



FRANK YAHNKE, WINONA. 



Not very many horticulturists in this state are fortunate enough 

 to possess a cherry orchard, for which I am sorry, but I am glad 

 that I am one of the fortunate. I already feast on the promising 

 crop of next year and speculate on the amount of money the cherry 

 orchard will bring, for the trees are full of blossom buds. How 

 nice ! — if it only would not be for the "if" that is in it, and that "if" 

 is "Jack Frost" in blooming time. If that "if" would remain away 

 a good crop could always be secured. 



Rows of Homer cherry trees in bearing at Mr. Frank Yahnke's place. 



Very little is to be done in the months of September and Oc- 

 tober in the cherry orchard when the season is normal. A bearing 

 cherry orchard had better -be left alone so as to ripen its wood to 

 go well prepared into winter quarters. In a very dry season it 

 might be necessary to keep up cultivation in a young cherry orchard 

 in order to retain the moisture which is needed for them to go into 

 winter right. However, a bearing cherry orchard I would mulch 

 rather than keep up cultivation in. 



