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myself, experimenting in growing the Orel Sweet, the Vilna Sweet, 

 and the Yellow Glass. The first two, judging from the api:)earance of 

 the trees and leaves, are of the Duke family, and the Yellow Glass 

 evidently belongs to the Bigarreau. The Vilna Sweet has fruited in 

 the vicinity of Des Moines, and, while it bears more or less sparingly, 

 the fruit is of such sujDerior quality as to justify its culture for home 

 use. The Orel Sweet is a beautiful tree, but is, I fear, tender in fruit- 

 bud, in view of the fact that the buds swell under the influence of 

 abnormal heat in the fall, and the buds being thereby exposed to- 

 winter injury. 



Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, New York, divides the 

 sour cherries into two classes, the Amarelles, with uncolored juice, 

 and the Morellos, with colored juice. The first division is repre- 

 sented by the Early Richmond, and the second by the English Mo- 

 rello. Successful growing of these sour or Morello cherries in the 

 West is limited to a territory about 500 miles in width, commencing 

 in the latitude of St. Louis on the south, and extending to the line 

 of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, in Iowa, north. 



This limit, it is probable, will be extended a degree or two further 

 north by the introduction of the Russian varieties, many of which 

 liave already been satisfactorily tested in and north of the territory 

 referred to. 



The varieties of the cherry with uncolored juice adapted to the 

 latitude of the south half of Iowa are as follows : 



First, the Early Richmond, which may be regarded as the standard 

 cherry of this territory, the same having been introduced with the 

 earliest settlements, and now extensively grown in a wide extent of 

 territory in the Northwest. The tree and fruit are so familiar to every 

 one that further description is unnecessary. It is to-day the most re- 

 liable known cherry for this section of the country. 



Second, the Dyehouse, grow^n by Mr. H. A. Terry, of Crescent, 

 Pottawatomie county, Iowa, for the last thirty years. The tree is a 

 more spreading grower than the Early Richmond. It is a fair bearer 

 of fruit, very similar in appearance to the Early Richmond, possibly 

 a little larger in size, a little deeper in color, and of about the same 

 quality, and ripening a few days earlier. 



Third, the Late Richmond, similar to the Early Richmond in ap- 

 pearance. The tree is rather an erect grower, and the fruit ripens 

 about two weeks later than the Early Richmond. It is a little smaller 

 in size, but is most excellent in quality. I have two trees growing on 

 my farm, near Des Moines, over twenty years old. These trees have 

 grown seven good crops during the seven years I have owned the 

 place, and I have been led to x^ropagate from them by reason of the 



