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THE CANADIAN H0RTICULTURIS2 



Earth being worn out. The old lady has 

 all the possibilities of perpetual >x)uth, but 

 coquette that she is, she must be fed with 

 the dainties she loves and petted to make 

 her yield her best crops. This is especially 



so as to the vineyards, which have been 

 used for generations. The French vines 

 are cut down every year, and every vine has 

 its individual stake, and one might say its 

 individual treatment. — Mail-Empire. 



PROTECTION FOR CHERRIES IN THE COLDER DISTRICTS 



BY PROF. W. T. MACOUN, C. E. F. , OTTAWA. 



THERE has not been a full crop of 

 cherries in the Ottawa district and 

 at the Experimental Farm since 

 1898, owing to the flower buds being killed 

 by frost either in winter or spring. Some- 

 times the flowers never open, and again 

 when they do open, the pistil is found 

 blackened and the flowers rendered unfer- 

 tile. In 1902 there was a light crop of 

 fruit, and in some trees a medium crop, and 

 on one tree a heavy crop, the variety being 

 one of the seedling dwarf Koslov Morellos, 

 mention of which has been made in the 



Canadian Horticulturist before. This tree 

 was very low growing and partially pro- 

 tected by snow in winter. This year the 

 crop is a failure, there being only a few 

 fruits on trees of the hardiest varieties. 

 The Koslov Morello, which fruited so heav- 

 ily last year, was winter killed. Fortunate- 

 ly this tree had been previously propagated. 



The hardiest cherries tested at the Cen- 

 tral Experimental Farm are amongg(;he Rus- 

 sian varieties, the Vladimir and Orel 25 

 being the hardiest in the flower bud. 



This note was written principally to call 

 attention to the value of protection for the 

 cherry. The accompanying photo, taken 

 by Mr. F. T. Shutt when the cherry tree 

 should have been full of bloom, shows that 

 it was only near the ground where the 

 flower buds were protected by snow that 

 they developed. 



In the Ottawa district, and in districts 

 where the climate is similar, unless we get 

 hardier varieties, we shall have to change 

 our methods of growing cherries and have 

 dwarf trees or train the trees in such a way 

 that they can be protected. The latter 

 jmethod is not likely to hz adopted, but if 

 dwarf trees could be obtained of the hardi- 

 est varieties there would be the double ad- 

 vantage of having trees which could be pro- 

 tected readily from birds, as at present 

 when there is a crop of fruit the birds get a 

 large share of it, especially when there are 

 only a few trees. At the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm we are working to obtain a 

 dwarf ch'erry which will be equal in quality 

 to any of the tall growing Morellos. 



Fig. 2645. 



