50 THE KANSAS CHERRY. 



T>. D. White, Enon, Harper county. ^ — I have twelve cherry trees in bearing, 

 planted ten years. My soil is a sandy loam, about level. Planted my trees twelve 

 feet apart; gather the fruit when ripe: use it all at home. Have never grown, 

 budded or grafted my own trees. If planting over, I would put out Early Rich- 

 mond, or May and Black Morello. My neighbors are growing cherries. I con- 

 sider them a fairly paying crop in this locality. They are troubled with no insects. 

 Do not irrigate my cherries. 



F. W. Dixon, Holton, Jackson count3\ - Of all our fruits the cherry is the 

 easiest grown and most profitable; trees never require any attention after being 

 cared for four or five years. It is true we have failures, but generally get a good 

 crop of salable fruit. Dyehouse is a little earlier than Richmond ; tree not as 

 good grower and not as hardy. Early Richmond is a standard early cherry, and 

 so far has proven the best paying. Montmorency is an annual bearer, about ten 

 days later than Early Richmond, but not so prolific. Fruit very large, good fla- 

 vored, and of fine appearance; tree very hardy, a fine grower, and quite ornamen- 

 tal. Wragg has proven to be inferior in size to English Morello. English Morello 

 is the standard late cherry. Trees were badly damaged by the cold of February, 

 1899, and are generally short-lived because of their extreme productiveness; we 

 have picked two bushels of cherries from trees so small that fruit could all be 

 picked while standing on the ground. Sweet cherries have not proven profitable. 

 Governor Wood withstood the cold of 1899 all right, but the winds usually man- 

 age to get all the fruit before it ripens. Cherry trees generally were badly dam- 

 aged by cold of 1899, all the older trees being killed. The extreme limit of life 

 of a cherry tree in this climate is about fifteen years. The cherry requires a well- 

 drained soil, and will succeed on no other; a porous clay subsoil is preferable. 



H. S. Cutter, South Cedar, Jackson county. — I learned from planting the 

 following varieties of cherries, Early Richmond, Late Richmond, Dyehouse, 

 Early Morello, Ostheim, that for me the Early Richmond is the cherry for this 

 part of Kan.sa5. 



F. L. O.sboriK', Soldier, Jackson county. — I have eighteen cherry trees, 

 planted fifteen years. They are Montmorency, Ostheim, and Richmond: of these 

 the best bearer is the Montmorency, although the other two varieties are good 

 bearers. My soil is a black level loam. I plant sixteen feet apart. Gather them 

 when ripe and sell in the orchard, receiving eight cents per quart. Have never 

 grown, budded or grafted my own trees. If planting over again, I know of no 

 better varieties than the above-named ones. Would set them in ground free 

 from sod, eighteen feet apart, cultivate well, jiof allowing the weeds to grow. 



E. M. Gray, Perry, Jefferson county. — In 1885 I planted a small cherry 

 orchard; varieties were Early Richmond, Montmorency. I planted them on a 

 southern incline, sandy, black soil ; have had a good crop every year since coming 

 into bearing, except last year the crop rotted just before ripening; the cause 

 of the rot, I think, was too much wet weather and no cultivation. In 1890 I 

 planted about 200 cherry trees on three different slopes and soils — No, 1 on 

 southern slope, dry, sandy soil; No. 2 on northern, black, wet soil; No. 3 on 

 western slope, a red, dry soil. The varieties were Early Richmond, Large Mont- 

 morency, Wragg, Dyehouse, English Morello, May Duke, Ostheim, Sula Hardy. 

 My experience as to soils is that cherries want dry feet — light, dry, loose soils. I 

 had bad success on wet land, and I recommend clean cultivation up to t^^e middle 



