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The Morello, variously known as English, Large Dutch, and Ron- 

 ald's Morello, is nearly two weeks later than Montmorency, a bushy 

 and finally a drooping grower, with medium-sized, roundish or round- 

 cordate fruits, which become red-black when fully ripe. Flesh very 

 dark, much sourer than the Montmorency. In western New York 

 the Morello harvest begins from the 8th to the middle of July. 



SWEET-CHERRY INDUSTRY. 



Unlike most other fruits, the sweet-cherry industry has never at- 

 tained a prominent position in western New York. There is not an 

 orchard of it west of Albany, so far as I know. Along the Hudson, 

 however, there are three or four orchards. It is on the few trees 

 .scattered on every farm throughout the state that the cherry crop is 

 mostly grown. It should not be thought however, that the smallness 

 of the industry follows from a lack of appreciation of this most lus- 

 cious fruit. It is due to the fact that the cherry is a most difficult 

 crop to handle and market successfully, because of its exceedingly 

 delicate character, and the fungus, which causes brown rot, which 

 spreads so rapidly on the ripening fruit, that the i)romising crop of 

 to-day may be half rotted to-morrow. The comparative ease of hand- 

 ling and marketing grapes, apples and pears make those fruits univer- 

 sally popular. The cherry is one of the most popular door-yard 

 fruits, and its hardiness, its vigorous uiDright form, which often at- 

 tains the height of forty to fifty feet, and its luxuriant, soft, drooping 

 foliage, its hardiness, and the fact that it bears annually when prop- 

 erly treated, make it a most desirable tree for ornamental and fruit- 

 bearing purposes. The tree starts very early in the season and most 

 varieties are harvested by July 1, thus leaving the trees sufficient 

 time and energy to perfect fruit-buds for the coming year ; and if the 

 wood is well ripened in the fall the mercury may fall to twenty de- 

 grees below zero without injury to the coming crop. There seems 

 to be much inquiry among fruit-growers and farmers regarding the 

 care of cherry orchards, the most desirable varieties, the diseases, the 

 methods of handling and marketing the crop. As these matters are- 

 more fully understood, the cherry industry may be expected to reach 

 a prominent position among the other horticultural industries. — 

 Professor Bailey's Bulletin. 



