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asserts very confidently that what “Man has done, man may do.” I 
dont know where he gets his authority, but I am inclined to believe 
itin regard to plum growing. If there are other obstacles to suc- 
cess, they are only such as would appeal to the common sense of 
any ordinary fruit grower. , 
If I should transplant a colored gentleman to the arctic circle, I 
should expect him to sigh for the temperature of Africa. If Chicka- 
saw plums are plantedin Minnesota they will freeze to death sooner 
or later; so also will any of the tender varieties of Europe; but if 
the Cheney, Rollingstone, Desota or Weaver be planted here, in any 
soil or situation that will produce a good crop of grain, thrifty and 
vigorous trees and an abundance of fruit may be assured; and this 
may be true of numerous other varieties, notwithstanding all the 
ravages of curculio, insects, plum pods, cold weather, black knot, 
rot, &c. My faith is such that I shall continue to plant seeds and 
trees, confidently expecting to gather the fruit. Anda strong hint, 
through the work of the Jewell Nursery Co., may be utilized by the 
tree growers and fruit men of this state, when they are informed 
that the company has this fall planted upwards of fifty bushels of 
seeds, in addition to their large stock, from which they may reason- 
ably expect a million trees. 
CHERRIES IN MINNESOTA. 
AUGUST MEIER, NEW ULM. 
My experience in cherry culture began about fourteen years ago, 
at which time I purchased two trees from an Ohio nursery. .I will 
not attempt to name them, but the fruit isof the same kind as that 
shipped here from the Eastern states. 
I attribute my success with these two trees to the place in which 
I planted them, which is about fifteen feet from the north side of my 
house ; besides the house there are several large cottonwood trees 
which also help to screen them from the sun. The trees are now 
about twenty feet high with stems of about six inches in diameter, 
The first crop they bore was in 1886. Since then they have ’'borne 
quite regularly, except in 1893, this section having been visited by a 
severe hailstorm the previous year, from which they did not recover © 
until this year. In 1892 I gathered about three bushels of fruit from 
the trees. 
They blossom with or a little earlier than the plum or apple trees, 
while the fruit matures about the first weekin July. The berry is 
of ared color when ripe and has avery fine flavor, and in size is 
equal to those grown in the East. Many small trees have come up 
from the seeds or roots underneath the trees; they are apparently 
of the same kind as the parent trees. I have transplanted some of 
them, but none of them have borne fruit, so I cannot tell whether 
they are the same as the original trees. 
I have also another kind which seems to be hardier,though it has 
not so fine a fruit, and they do not produce so abundantly, which is 
probably due to the fact that the berries grow singly on the 
