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Vladimer with colored skin and juice differ in tree habit 

 and texture of fruit from the English Morello, yet they do 

 not differ as much as the apples or oranges that are classed 

 together, and the same is true of all the Red Morellos of 

 all parts of Europe with red skin and uncolored flesh and 

 juice. After separating into two groups the main after 

 differences in the Morellos is in hardiness of tree as grown 

 in various parts of the Union and difference in quality for 

 varied uses. 



180. Propagation of the Cherry. The selection of 

 stocks and propagation by budding and grafting are given 

 in Chapter VII and the transplanting, spacing, and after 

 care in Chapters IX and X. The most important con- 

 sideration in prairie propagation of the cherrry is that of 

 selection of a hardy stock on which to bud or graft the 

 hardiest known varieties. This is specially true north of 

 the 42d parallel. As stated on prior page all varieties of 

 the cherry take well by budding on our native bird-cherry 

 (Prunus Pennsylvania^) (71). At the experimental farm 

 at Ottawa, Canada, during recent years, about the only 

 cherry-trees that escaped root-killing were those on bird 

 cherry-roots, and the same has been true in the prairie 

 States. As Professor Bailey says, the bird cherry is quite 

 a sprouter in its native localities. But when budded with 

 the cultivated cherry we have seen but few sprouts on trees 

 set twelve years in orchard. The draw on food-supply of 

 the larger top and crops of larger fruit varieties seem to 

 leave no reserve supply of nutriment for throwing up 

 sprouts. But this only applies to the sections of our 

 broad country where root-killing is frequent in open 

 winters. Where the mazzard and mahaleb stocks are 

 hardy they will continue to be the commercial stocks. 



181. No Market Supply of the Cherry. As we now have 

 varieties of good quality for dessert use or canning iu 



