44 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



cherries will do in a limited way in the Southern part of 

 the State with proper attention to mulching to protect the 

 roots. A determined effort is being made by the South Dakota 

 Experiment Station to supply this demand for a hardy cherry 

 by breeding experiments. 



N. E. HAN SEN, Brookings. 



Texas : I : Not grown, except a few trees here and there. 



E. J. KYLE, Austin. 



Tennessee : i : Cannot be considered among the commercial fruit crops. The 

 largest cherry orchard that I know of in the State is owned by 

 Mr. Horace Rainy, of Columbia, and is about sixteen acres in 

 extent. It is devoted entirely to sour cherries and the product 

 finds a profitable sale in local and adjacent markets. Very many 

 of the fruit growers include a few hundred trees, but the crop is 

 disposed of in local markets entirely. I have not been able to 

 learn of the success of sweet cherries except in a limited way. 

 CHARLES A. KEFFER, Knoxville. 



Vermont : I : Very limited extent, not sufficient to supply ten per cent of local 

 consumption in larger cities. 



2 : Sour fairly well ; sweet, not at all. 



3 : Sour. WILLIAM STUART, Burlington. 

 Wisconsin : We grow only two kinds of cherries, namely, Early Richmond and Eng- 

 lish Morello. We do not grow any sweet cherries at all. Practically no 

 commercial cherry growing in the State. What few are grown are 

 eaten by the birds before they are ripe. 



E. P. SANDSTEN, Madison. 



West Virginia : i : Not very extensively. In some three or four sections of the 

 state extensive orchards are now being planted. 



2 : Both reasonably well ; the sour in the regions bordering on the 



Ohio River and Northern part of the State, while the sweet seem 

 to thrive better on the higher grounds in the Southeastern por- 

 tion of the State, especially in Greenbrier and Munroe counties. 



3 : Local markets demand both sour and sweet cherries. The sour 



have been making more money for the grower than the sweet, 

 although the sweet are coming into favour rapidly within the 

 last few years. T. C. JOHNSON, Morgantown. 



CANADA 



British Columbia: i : Cherries of a very superior quality are grown commercially in 

 every part of the province. 



2 : Both sour and sweet succeed. Both in most parts ; only the 



former in a few of the higher altitudes. 



3 : Cherries that carry well are profitable, whether sour or sweet. 



Very late sour varieties are certainly profitable, perhaps even 

 more so than the best sweet cherries when the markets are 

 well stocked. 



R. ANDERSON, Victoria. 



Manitoba and Northwestern territories : The cultivated cherries do not succeed. Sand 



Cherries do well. W. T. M. 



