74 THE KANSAS CHERRY. 



temperature. A mild, equable, moist climate suits them best, but not 

 a hot one. 



Twenty-five or thirty feet is none too far for the sweet kinds, but 

 the smaller-growing Amarelles and Morellos will do very well at 

 eighteen feet, or even closer in some places where the soil and season 

 do not stimulate a vigorous growth. 



It is useless to exjject to grow cherries profitably either for market 

 or home use for a long iDeriod without giving them thorough and 

 clean cultivation. The soil should be kept as clean as a garden up 

 to the time the fruit is ripe ; soon after that their wood is mature 

 and cultivation may be stopped. If the trees lack vigor, a catch-crop 

 of Crimson clover, cow-peas, buckwheat or even rye may be sown, but 

 it must be turned under very early in the spring, and the stirring of 

 the soil resumed. The cherry is very sensitive to severe pruning, and 

 the trees should be well looked after when they are young to get them 

 headed low enough for convenience and properly formed ; then little 

 will be needed afterwards. The cutting of large branches is very 

 dangerous at any time. 



The universal plan in gathering cherries is to leave the stems at- 

 tached to the fruit, exce^Dt, rarely, for local sale or home use. Small 

 packages have proven decidedly more profitable to carry them to 

 market than large ones. Quart berry boxes and shallow trays put up 

 in crates are better than grape baskets, according to the latest ex- 

 perience. — Prof. II. E. Van Deman. 



THE DYEHOUSE AND EARLY RICHMOND CHERRIES. 



The difPerence in the fruit of the two varieties is not a great deal 

 until both are ripe, though Dyehouse generally ripens a week or ten 

 days in advance of Early Richmond. But the fully ripe fruit of Dye- 

 house is superior to the fully rijie fruit of Early Richmond. Another 

 difPerence, as noted by Professor Powell, of the Delaware station 

 (bulletin No. 85), is in the juice of Dyehouse being somewhat dark 

 colored, while that of Early Richmond is colorless. Both varieties 

 are profuse bearers, and Dyehouse is probably the earliest bearer of 

 all fruit-trees ; young trees, two years old, quite frequently bear in 

 the nursery rows. Both varieties are valuable for localities in which 

 the sweet cherries are not generally successful ; and Dyehouse is valu- 

 able for any locality and in any collection, considering its excellence 

 for pies, for canning, and, when fully ripe, for eating right from the 

 tree. It has also the smallest pit of all cherries. 



Dyehouse, as many of our readers know, originated in central Ken- 



