THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 30. APRIL, 1902. No. 4. 



A BUCKTHORN HEDGE AT THE MINNESOTA 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



(See Frontispiece.) 



The frontispiece shows a buckthorn hedge on the grounds 

 of the Experiment Station, as it appeared in September, 1901. 

 Against the end of the building is a vine of the Ampelopsis veitchi, 

 commonly called Boston, or Japanese, ivy. This plant is not quite 

 hardy enough for Minnesota winters, but does finely in the summer. 

 I think, however, as the roots get older that we shall find it will do 

 much better. We have made a practice of protecting this each win- 

 ter by setting up some poles in front of it and covering it with straw. 

 — Samuel B. Green. 



VARIETIES AND CULTURE OF CHERRIES IN THE 



ORCHARD. 



FRANK YAHNKE, WINONA. 



I do not know if I can interest this meeting for five minutes on 

 this subject, because so little attention has been given to this deli- 

 cious fruit, the reason for which I do not know. This society has 

 not yet cherries on its fruit list, and it has been only a few years 

 since the Wisconsin Horticultural Society had them on its fruit list. 



When I first came to Minnesota and found cherries such a lux- 

 ury and so expensive that only wealthy people could afford to buy 

 them, I often wished for a cherry orchard like my father's, for then 

 my fortune would be made. My greatest desire was to get such va- 

 rieties as I used to eat when a boy and which I remember tasted 

 very delicious to me. But I will say right here that I have never 

 succeeded — probably my change in taste accounts for this. 



In 1874 I planted a dozen of English Morello. In the spring of 

 1875 I planted some of the Strauss Weichsel and some of the 

 Homer cherries, as they are called by us. The English Morello all 

 died out in 1885 from the effect of the severe winter. I was not 

 satisfied with these, for they did not come up to my ideal. When 



