Special Report 



Colorado, 

 Delaware : 



Delaware : 



Georgia 



Idaho : i 

 Iowa : I 



2 



3- 

 Iowa : I : 



2 ; 

 3- 



Illinois : 

 Indiana : 



Kentucky 



Louisiana 

 Georgia : 



Denver. 



I : — Extensi\^ely for family use ; limited number grown commercially. 



Chas. Wright, Seaford. 



1 : — Only a few grown. 



2 : — Sour cherries do best, except perhaps in northern part, where the 



sweet varieties do well. 



3 : — Sour. C. P. Close, Newark. 



1 : — Not commercially. Local markets throughout Middle and Northwest 



supplied with a limited quantity, especially in mountain regions, where 

 almost all kinds do fairly well. Extensively for home use. 



2 : — Except in northwest and mountains of north and northeast sweet 



cherries do not succeed, 

 j: — Morellos. H. N. Starnes, Experiment. 



: — In some parts of the State, for shipment. 



A. H. HiTT, Weiser. 



: — Sour varieties succeed well knd are grown in all parts of the State except 

 extreme North. Sweet varieties are grown in a limited way in Southern 

 and Eastern sections of the State. 



: — Sour varieties succeed well. 



:- Sour. E. E. Little, Ames. 



: — 791,327 trees reported in 1900. 



: — Sweet sorts tender. Sour types succeed. 



: — Sour. 



A. T. Erwin, Ames. 



J. C. Blair, Urbana. 



Maryland 



1 : — Limited. Few commercial orchards. 



2 : — Sour only. 



1 : — Quite limited. 



2 : — Sour. 



3: — Sour. J. Troop, Lafayette. 



1 : — For the most part only for home use and local markets. 



2 : — Sour cherries more generally and more successfully grown. 



3 : — Sour. 



C. W. Mathews, Lexington. 



I : — Not commercially. A few sour varieties in the North. 



F. H. Burnette, Baton Rouge. 

 2 : — Not commercially. Mountain districts in northern part of state would 

 undoubtedly be suitable for a number of varieties, but the industry is 

 not developed. Probably about 50,000 bearing cherry trees of stand- 

 ard varieties in the State. 



WiLMON Newell, Atlanta. 



1 : — Not largely grown commercially ; quite generally planted in home 



orchards. 



2 : — Sour ; sweet cherries uncertain. 



3: — Sour. Albert Dickens, Manhattan. 



1 : — Not as a commercial crop. 



2 : — Both grow and fruit well. 



3: — Sour. W. N. Hutt, Agricultural College. 



I : — Practically the only sections of the state where cherries are grown are 

 in the Bitterroot, Flathead, and Yellowstone valleys. Russian varie- 

 ties succeed fairly well in the higher and colder altitudes. 



