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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



HARDY CHERRIES. 



^ the recent meeting of the American 

 Association of Nurserymen at Chica- 

 .^^^^ go, on the 13th and 14th of June, an 

 interesting discussion took place on the 

 most productive and hardiest of the Kentish 

 and Morello cherries, from which we give 

 the following extract : 



Mr. N. H. Albaugh : In my opinion there 

 are only three really A No. i sort of cherries 

 that have been tested in all this western 

 country and that will stand the cold and bear 

 a crop even though the thermometer goes 

 to 25 or 30 below zero, and those are the 

 ordinary Early Richmond, the Dyehouse and 

 the Montmorency. There is the advantage, 

 too, that these three cherries come in suc- 

 cession, the Dyehouse coming first, then the 

 Early Richmond, and then a week or so 

 later the Montmorency, and the Montmor- 

 ency is a cherry worthy indeed of planting. 



Mr. Silas Wilson : A great many people 

 are being misled, mixing up the Large Mont- 

 morency with the Montmorency Ordinaire 

 and the Dyehouse. The Large Montmorency 

 with me is an upright grower, rather stocky 

 limb, very different from the Montmorency 

 Ordinaire, which forms a head very similar 

 to that of the Early Richmond, the fruit 

 being much larger, but it does not come 

 into bearing quite as early as the Richmond 

 does. I can tell a Montmorency by its habit 

 of growth, either in the nursery or in the 

 orchard ; it has a larger and longer leaf and 

 more pointed than the Montmorency Ordi- 

 naire. In regard to the ripening of the 

 Dyehouse, I have fruited them for a number 

 of years, as well as the Early Richmond, 

 and it is safe to say that they ripened as 

 much as four days earlier than the Early 

 Richmond. 



Being asked whether he considered the 

 Dyehouse worth anything, Mr. Wilson said 

 he did not consider it as valuable as the 

 Early Richmond and the English Morello, 

 and on the whole was not inclined to regard 

 it as a great acquisition. 



President Peters stated that in his section 

 of the state the English Morello was con- 

 sidered of very little value, it being too slow 

 about coming into bearing, and more likely 

 to suffer from severe winters and curcuHo 

 than most any other variety of cherry. 



Mr. Augustine, of Illinois, stated that his 

 objection to the English Morello was that 

 during a warm, wet season the fruit was apt 

 to become wormy before it ripened. The 

 Large Montmorency, in his opinion, is the 

 most valuable of the sour cherries in the 

 west ; it is a much meatier cherry and the 

 tree is a more vigorous grower than that of 

 the Early Richmond and the cherry will 

 bring one-third more in almost any market 

 than the Early Richmond. 



Mr. A. L. Brooke, of Kansas, said that 

 in his state the sour cherry business is a very 

 important business, and the Early Rich- 

 mond has never been known to fail there. 

 The Dyehouse is not considered to be of 

 much account, as the tree is not hardy. The 

 English Morello in Kansas bears itself al- 

 most to death, but it is not a hardy tree, the 

 winters hurt it ; on the bottoms, especially, 

 it will kill out in a very few winters. 



Mr. Irving Rouse, of New York, said 

 that the Montmorency cherry is the cherry 

 for the canning factory and it will sell for 

 more money than the Richmond or the 

 Morello. 



