472 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MY CHERRY ORCHARD AND ITS LESSONS. 



W. S. WIDMOYER, DRESBACH. 



My first planting of cherries was made in the spring of 1893 

 and consisted of five trees each of English Morello and Mont- 

 morency, but it was so late that only two of each kind were alive 

 the following fall. 



(Lesson one: do not plant too late in spring.) 

 I also planted ten trees procured from a neighbor and said 

 to be Early Richmond, but they are not ; they are a tall growing 



Cherry orchard on place of W. S. Widmojer. 



tree, with a light or grayish colored bark, and so far I have had 

 no fruit from them, although they usually blossom full. 



(Lesson two: do not pick up trees or plants from all over 

 the neighborhood, unless sure you know what you are getting.) 



I also set twenty root sprouts from an Early Richmond tree 

 which grew on the old farm and bore good crops for several 

 years, and which I know to be an Early Richmond on its own 

 roots, as I dug and set the tree myself in 1879; yet these twenty 

 trees have only had enough fruit for the birds so far. 



(Question? Will continued propagation of the cherry and 

 other trees by root sprouts be followed by unproductiveness?) 



My main cherry orchard consists of seventy-five trees set 

 out in the spring of 1894, consisting of twenty-five each of Kentish 

 Red, Early Richmond and Homer Morello. In the spring of 



