38 THE KANSAS CHERRY. 



tree bring ten dollars. My neighbor has eight or nine acres of cherry 

 orchard, four years old, which brought him seventy-five dollars an 

 acre last year. We need more cherries. Plant enough to ship in car 

 lots, like we do peaches and apples. We ought to plant a variety of 

 fruit. 



The cherry will fruit as often and bring as much money and pay 

 for itself before the apple begins to bear. When a man talks of 

 planting an orchard, saying : "If it did not take so long for an apple 

 orchard to bear I would plant it," I tell him to plant apples, and also 

 ten acres of cherries to bring money to grow the apple orchard. In 

 planting orchards, if we would pay more attention to cherries, pears 

 and peaches, when the apple crop fails the fruit-grower would have 

 more money. [Good!] 



There are many varieties hardly worth planting. The Hearts and 

 Bigarreau varieties will do but little good, as they are usually short- 

 lived and bear but little, and are so good the birds get them all. The 

 Dukes and Morellos are so sour the birds will not bother them if you 

 will plant a few Russian mulberries along the fences. The English 

 Morello bears like the Ben Davis apple. You can stand on the ground 

 and i^ick most of the fruit and not bother with ladders, and it never 

 dies in debt to you. 



We have a neighbor planting a 200-acre orchard. He is planting 

 5000 cherries and 5000 peaches. I think if more of our fruit-growers 

 would plant cherries, peaches, and pears, as well as apples, they would 

 have fruit to sell every year, and their bank account would hold up 

 better from one apple crop to the next one. 



THE CHERRY. 



A paper by J. F. Cecil, Topeka, Kan., read before the SLawnee County Horticultural Society. 



The growing of cherries in our section of the state is, so far as I 

 am aware, limited to two or three varieties of the sour class. If any 

 one has succeeded in getting a sweet cherry tree into profitable bear- 

 ing in Shawnee county I have not heard of it. The first obstacle met 

 with in the attempt is the bursting of the bark, which comes from the 

 inadaptation of the tree to the soil and climate. I believe that suc- 

 cessful crops have only been obtained from Early Richmond and 

 English Morello, with many hopeful plantings of the Montmorency. 

 The Early Richmond is the earliest, and a hardy, productive tree. 

 Its fruit is usually more free of the curculio, and comes so early that 

 it is seldom harmed by drought. Its fruit is small to medium in size, 

 unless grown under very favorable circumstances. It is the most 

 popular variety in the_West ; as many trees of this variety are planted 



