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fires also may be used with good effect around fruit trees 

 on a frosty night and cost nothing but a little work and 

 watchfulness. 



Of the sour cherries Montmorency is about ten days 

 later than Richmond, and the fruit is larger. Other good 

 sorts are English Morello, very dark colored, and Late 

 Duke, a good late variety. Slikeman and Downer's Late 

 Red are both worth consideration on account of their 

 lateness ; the former is the latest cherry we have ; both 

 are of good quality. 



Of the early sweet cherries, the black varieties are the 

 highest flavored, and as a table fruit they excel. Black 

 Tartarian is one of the best; Schmidt's Bigarreau is 

 another good sort; Mercer is a good dark red cherry; 

 Rockport Bigarreau and Governor Wood are both light 

 red varieties, with little to choose between them. Coe's 

 Transparent is a large light red; handsome, very meaty, 

 but not quite so luscious as some of the others. 



There is no more prolific tree than the plum, and the 

 fruit can be used for many purposes other than as a table 

 fruit. The trees are strong growers and outside of serv- 

 ing as a prey for the San Jose scale, a condition easily re- 

 lieved by spraying, the trees give no trouble after planting. 

 And moreover, you don't plant only for your children ; as 

 the trees bear in three to four years. It is peculiar that 

 the Japanese varieties seem to do better than our own and 

 the European varieties. 



In late pears Buerre d'Anjou should be one selection. It 

 is not what might be called a pretty pear, but when ripe, 

 is excellent for the table, having a distinct flavor ; the tree 

 is a good bearer, and the pears are extra large. Sheldon 

 ranks high as a table pear ; the fruit is of fair size, brown- 

 ish, of good shape and flavor. Duchess d'Angouleme is 

 a good all-around late pear. Lawrence is the best late 

 pear ; it will keep well into the winter ; it is a good cropper 

 and the fruit is of a fine quality. 



