NINETEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 8l 



Mr. Black, of New Jersey: Mr. Chairman, there is no 

 doubt in my mind at all, from a long experience as a nursery- 

 man and fruit grower, that anybody can grow cherries if they 

 grow them on the Mazzard root. This is the whole trouble. 

 Nurserymen found that the stock that they could get in France, 

 was so much cheaper, and the buds would live so much better, 

 and they could furnish the stock so much cheaper to the cus- 

 tomers, that they do it entirely upon that stock. The whole 

 trouble with the cherries that you are trying to raise here is 

 because you have not the right root system. If you plant them 

 on the Mazzard roots you can grow them in Connecticut as 

 well as anywhere else. 



Mr. Barnes : Mr. President, I do not wish to use up too 

 much time, but I think, in line with what has been said here, 

 that if we get the right roots we can raise cherries. Some fif- 

 teen or twenty years ago there were a great many of those 

 seedlings came up from the seed about the place where I was, 

 and I grafted those roots. They lived, grew, and yielded fruit 

 on almost every one, showing. I think, that there is nothing 

 the matter with the climate. We are on the right track. We 

 can grow cherries here if we only set ourselves to solving the. 

 problem. I think we can grow cherries if we want them.. 



President Gold: I like sweet cherries, and I Hope that 

 someone will try to grow them. 



A Member: About ten or twelve years ago we planted 

 some sweet cherries, and those trees are all in fine condition 

 today. They have made a tremendous growth. They have 

 been sprayed every year with lime and sulphur. We had a 

 good crop on them this year. 



Mr. G. W. Smith: I have on my farm two miles from 

 Melrose a black Mazzard cherry tree, the trunk of which is as 

 great in diameter as the box on which those pyramids of apples 

 stand on the stage. It must be fifty years old. People come 

 there in cherry time for miles around to get cherries. I think 

 that tree is an exception in vigorous growth. In the American 



