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trouble is owing to the stock that the trees are grown on, — 

 that it does not furnish a sufficient root for a long-lived 

 tree. With the experience I have had, if we take the tips 

 of our little seedling trees that we find growing around 

 the country in the fence corners and on the roadsides, and 

 which are strong and vigorous, if we will save those trees 

 and plant them and bud them with sweet varieties we will 

 get a much longer lived tree. There is no cpiestion but 

 what there would be a market for all we would grow in a 

 reasonable length of time. 



I planted on my home place perhaps fifty trees for 

 family supply, and I believe I have only three living trees, 

 and only one of those is anything respectable. They are 

 magnificent cherries, the tree bearing an abundance of su- 

 perb fruit. 



It is very clear to my mind that there is something 

 wrong with the stock they are on. I believe, with Air. 

 Smith, that if we really want cherries, and we go at it 

 right, we can get them. If you really want anything in this 

 world you can get it if you go after it. 



President Gold: I have noticed on the roadside often 

 that these native cherries are very thrifty. We have got a 

 good many of them in our vicinity, — these little native sweet 

 cherries that come up as seedlings. 



A Member : I believe there are no nicer cherries in the 

 State of Connecticut than some of the Mazzard cherries. Down 

 in Fairfield county, on the shore, we have some very fine cher- 

 ry trees. Some of them are over fifty years old. I have- 

 some that are twenty, and they are thrifty and nice. If we 

 happen to have a time in June when it is foggy, damp weather, 

 we are apt to lose the cherries, but when it is clear and dry we 

 are not apt to lose them. I believe we can grow them here and 1 

 make them pay well. 



Mr. Van Buren : I am a New York state man, and in 

 the western part of the state they say that to make cherries do> 

 well they must be put on the Mazzard stock. 



