THE KANSAS CHERRY. 75 



tucky. an accidental seedling in the orchard of the person whose name 

 it bears. This was years ago, when the people there had heard little 

 or nothing about budding or grafting, and increased the stock of their 

 favorite and never-failing cherry by sprouts dug up from the roots of 

 the parent tree. And some prefer these sprouts still, though the rea- 

 son of their preference is hardly clear. Finally, after thirty years of 

 continuous bearing — every year with one exception, when a late frost 

 destroyed the young fruit, then about the size of peas — Mr. Henry 

 T. Harris, a person who had experience with choice fruits, came across 

 it and introduced it to the ijublic. 



Since that time — over twenty years ago — it has demonstrated its 

 excellence in various parts of the country. North as well as South, 

 East and West, even in Minnesota and Canada. 



There is one peculiarity attending the proi3agation of the trees of 

 Dyehouse : the buds frequently do not succeed, failing to become at- 

 tached to the stock, and consequently dying. Why this is so is diffi- 

 cult to say, but it afPects only the nurseryman. 



CLASSES AND VARIETIES OF CHERRIES. 



Of cherries there are at least three distinct classes : the Morellos, 

 Dukes, and Hearts. The Morellos are all sour and the trees flourish 

 and bear in almost every part of the country. The Dukes are tart in 

 flavor and the trees are quite sensitive to climatic variations, and re- 

 quire a region where the changes are not severe, being neither very 

 hot in summer nor very cold in winter. The Hearts are still more 

 difficult to grow, except where the climate is peculiarly suited to them, 

 which is on the Pacific slope, in the Piedmont sections of the Appa- 

 lachian mountain ranges, and in the vicinity of the great lakes. In 

 those places they seem to flourish, especially in Oregon and Califor- 

 nia, where the most productive trees and the largest and most perfect 

 fruit are grown. 



Morellos : Dyehouse, Richmond, Montmorency, Philippe, English, 

 Wragg. Dukes: May Duke, Late Duke, Choisy, Olivet, Hortense, 

 Magnifique. Hearts : Black Tartarian, Napoleon, Tartarian, Mercer, 

 Windsor. 



Commercial cherry growing is not practiced by many this side of 

 Califorcia and Oregon. There is opportunity for much more in that 

 line than is done in the Eastern states ; especially is this true of the 

 Heart and sweet varieties, which are well suited to the certain sections 

 already mentioned. 



