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The Early Richmond and the Montmorency of the light reds and the 

 English Morello of the dark reds are as good as the best. May Duke 

 belongs with the sweet cherries botanically, and is more generally suc- 

 cessful than any other of that class. It is nearly as .sour as the real 

 sour cherries. 



INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES. 



E. T. Daniels, Kiowa, Barber county. — I have twenty cherry trees in 

 bearing, planted from eight to fourteen years; the Early Richmond and English 

 Morello do best for me. My soil is a dark silt upland, underlaid with red rock 

 at three feet, and a poor location. I plant twelve feet apart. Have grown,, 

 budded and grafted my own trees. If planting over, I would set the two varie- 

 ties named and another which I do not know the name of. My neighbors grow 

 very few cherries. The fruit was troubled with curculio only one year, for which 

 we did nothing. I expect to put out quite an orchard and believe there is money 

 in them. I do not irrigate my trees. 



W. G. Osborii, Medicine Lodge, Barber county. — I have about fifty cherry 

 trees in bearing, planted from five to fifteen years. They are May and Morello. 

 My soil is level bottom land. I plant twelve feet apart. Gather when ripe; use- 

 them at home. Have never grown, budded or grafted my own trees. Some of 

 my neighbors are growing cherries. I consider them a good paying crop in this 

 locality. They are troubled with birds only : I shoot them occasionally. Do 

 not irrigate my trees. 



C. A. lilackinore, Sharon, Barber county. — Early Richmond bears early, 

 but the birds get a good share of the crops. I plant Russian mulberries near by 

 to help keep the birds from the cherries. English Morello is a splendid cherry 

 and a prolific bearer. Montmorency Ordinaire is a very large, fine cherry. Dye- 

 house is yet too young to bear with me. Abbesse Sweet Duke, a very rank grower, 

 is now four years old and has not fruited yet. The common Morello falls badly 

 when stung by insects. Early Richmond and common Morello first bloom April 

 22, are in full bloom April 27, and have fallen by May 2. Montmorency Ordinaire 

 and English Morello first blooms appear April 26, are in full bloom April 29, 

 and have fallen by May G. 



George Ettrirtge, Roberts, Barton county.— I .have Early Richmond and 

 English Morello in bearing — forty trees set two years ago this spring, twenty 

 Early Richmonds and twenty Large Montmorency. Cherries do well here: there 

 are no insects to bother them. I do n't think the English Morello is very good 

 for this upland ; it is too late ripening. I have about 100 Russian mulberries, 

 and the birds feed on them, and do n't seem to bother the cherries. I have never 

 used any fertilizer until this winter; I am putting stable litter around my trees- 

 (not near the trees, over the ground). I always tie hay around the trees early 

 in the fall to keep rabbits from gnawing them. I set out two-year-old trees in 

 the spring: would not take trees of any kind as a gift and set them in the fall. 

 Where I set trees I plow the ground early in the fall, deep as a team can pull 

 the plow ; I dig holes sixteen inches square, set the trees a little deeper than 

 they stood in the nursery, trim all roots to about six inches of the body, and cut 

 the top back well. When they are set they look like little sticks stuck in the 



