!)4 77//: CONNISCTICL/'r POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



SECOND DAY, THURSDAY, FEB. 7. 



MORNING SESSION. 



The second and closing da}- of the Society's annual meeting 

 was called to order at 9.30 a. ni. by President J. E. Eddy. The 

 attendance included many who had been unable to be present 

 the first day and interest in the proceedings continued unabated. 



A discussion of the question list was first in order. 



Question No. 12 was called for, "What is the future for 

 clierry culture?" Air. J. L. Rice of Massachusetts, a cherry 

 grower of st)me experience, was invited to open the discussion. 



Mr. Rice of Massachusetts: I have grown a few cherries 

 for (juite a number of years. — tlie large white cherry. One 

 tree, a May Duke, lived and bore 2S years and we picked from 

 that one tree four bushels. I had another variety, a sour 

 cherrv : they did very well for a number of years. In 1898 I 

 set 100 trees that I supposed were all of a good variety- : only 

 2S i)roved to be Montmorency cherries. One day I went into 

 the orchard and saw a ripe cherry ab(mt the size of a cherry 

 pit and I thought if they were all like that they were fit for 

 nothing. A few davs after that I was in a market and saw 

 raspberries selling for ten cents a pint and I thought I would 

 trv my little cherries. In a few days I took an order in to the 

 market and they were so attractive and satisfactory I sol ' 

 them all for eight cents a pint. 



The next vear we had about ten bushels that we sold for 

 about the same price, and the year following we had 20 bushels. 

 Sonie trees we picked il pints from. Last year we gathered 

 30 bushels, and we put them in quart baskets because the pints 

 cost just about as much and it takes more cherries to face up 

 the ])ints than the (juarts. None of the (juarts sold for less 

 than 12^1" cents. 1 consider the cherry crop a profitaljle one. 

 We cultivate tlie orcliard the same as the peach orcliard and 

 fertilize it a little. My trees are set 13 x 13. but that is a little 

 too thick; 13 x 18 or 15 x 18 is better. 



A Member: Do you leave the stems on in i)icking? 



Mr. Rice: Yes. I think the only cherrv we can raise is 



