$2 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Encyclopedia of Horticulture, if my recollection is correct, Mr. 

 Hale was asked to write the article on cherries, and he said, 

 undoubtedly, with great correctness, that the cherry tree is 

 now almost unknown in Connecticut, and he gave as a reason 

 because the tree was attacked with disease. I agree with that, 

 and it shows that we have a lot to learn about cherries. I 

 believe with the gentleman from New Jersey, that we must 

 make a great change as to the stock on which we propagate 

 cherries, and go from the present ones to the Mazzard, if it is 

 any improvement. I trust it will be so. I have some trees on 

 my present home place which I imported from England, about 

 twenty to thirty trees, that are trained in the English method. 



That must have been about twelve years ago. I planted 

 those in good soil, and they grew so fast, and stood so thickly 

 that I have had to cut them out. Every one of those trees is 

 doing well. I am not sure what the stock is that they are on, 

 but it has done finely. I pick a great many cherries out of 

 that little orchard, and my family consider, in the winter-time, 

 that there is nothing any more pleasant for them than to be 

 able to go down in the cellar and take out preserved fruit, and 

 with them the cherry takes the first place. 



The demand in Connecticut for a good, sweet, mar- 

 ketable cherry is good. I believe that there is a demand, 

 almost, I was going to say, ten times greater than the sup- 

 ply. Why, you cannot carry a basket of nice cherries 

 through the streets and expose them without people of- 

 fering to buy them. We need to get up and do something 

 with cherries. I wrote around to the experiment stations 

 to get their opinion about planting cherries. Being a lit- 

 tle timid about planting them, I wanted to see if they 

 would advise putting them out where they were put on 

 perfectly well adapted soil, and I could not get one of 

 them to say yes. I believe with the gentleman who for- 

 merly spoke, that by improving the tree, people who desire 

 cherries enough to plant them in the future can have them 

 right here in Connecticut in plenty. 



