I30 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



that we have to contend with, especially in trying to protect 

 such sniah fruits as cherries. They are particularly fond of 

 them, and at the rate that they are increasing it will not be 

 long before we shall have to fight if we obtain any cherries 

 at all. 



^Ir. Lupton : Mr. President, I think probably the reason 

 that you can not grow sweet cherries in Connecticut is, in the 

 main, that they are grafted on old stock, and it is not strong 

 enough to stand your winters. I think if you would graft 

 your cherries on trees of native stock, which grow^ well in this 

 northern climate, you would not have so much trouble. That 

 has been our experience in Virginia. We do not have any 

 difficulty that way. You know that a cherry tree is hard to 

 make live and to transplant. I am inclined to think if your 

 nurserymen would try to graft on some of your native stock 

 that they could develop a somewhat hardy variety, -which 

 would stand your climate. 



So far as the birds are concerned, I think probably we 

 have as many as you do, but we never think about the birds. 

 Down in our country cherries grow wild, on wild trees, and 

 as I told you yesterday, there are so many of them we do not 

 miss what the birds take at all. If you planted cherries, and 

 had large cherry orchards, I do not believe you would miss 

 what the birds take. But, of course, up in this colder climate, 

 where the cherry is a rarer fruit, you do miss w'hat they take. 

 What the birds take does not scare me at all. The principal 

 difficulty in growing cherries wath us is the early spring 

 frosts. I take it that you would not have that difficulty. You 

 are not so liable to have those early spring frosts, and I believe 

 you can grow cherries in this climate if you can get your nur- 

 serymen to graft on new stock, as I have suggested. I am 

 quite sure of it. 



Mr. Hale : Ten years ago I planted a few trees, and for 

 the last seven years I have been getting good crops of sour 

 cherries, but no sweet ones. The sour cherry bears well with 

 me, and bears very steadily every year. 



The President: That has practically been our experi- 

 ence. There are numbers of old trees that are bearing, but 

 there are no young orchards. I think if Mr. Lupton's sug- 



