CHERRIES — GRAPES. 295 



Our surplus apples have been mostly absorbed by the home 

 market. Some have been barreled and shipped to Chicago. 



My first planting of pear trees did well and bore several 

 good crops, then the blight attacked them and they were soon 

 dead. Subsequent plantings have done but little good, and 

 pear growing at present, at least, seems under a cloud. Peaches 

 are not planted with the expectation of their proving remuner- 

 ative, although I grow fine peaches some seasons. 



CHERKIES. 



Cherries, as a rule, do well. I refer to the Early Rich- 

 mond and others of the Morello class. But there are some 

 failures, and my experience may benefit some one, as my ignor- 

 ance cost me a good sized cherry orchard. I cultivated ray 

 trees even after they began to bear, kept them growing too 

 late, and a cold Winter killed them. Since then I have inves- 

 tigated the matter quite thoroughly, and am convinced that 

 clierries do much better without cultivation, at all events, after 

 the trees come into bearing. 



The Duke cherries thrive in some parts of our county, but 

 the sweet varieties are not a success. Cherries are about 

 equally divided between Chicago and the home market. I 

 have shipped both in quart boxes and in boxes holding half a 

 bushel. 



GRAPES. 



I have had fair success in grape growing, but during the 

 last few years, the rot has shortened the crop considerably. I 

 plant the Concord mainly, having found it far ahead of any 

 thing else tried, for the main crop. Hartford, Ives, Clinton, 

 Catawba, Isabella, Delaware, Martha and others, including 

 many of the Hybrids, have been grown with more or less 

 success. There are portions of our county where the Hybrids 

 and finer varieties do well on the sand hills and ridges. 



I have a vineyard of one acre of Concord vines, planted 

 some twelve years ago. They were planted six feet apart each 

 way, and trained to a single stake, generally with two canes 

 from the ground or near it, twisted each way around the 



