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tenderer varieties of fruit. I do not consider that the cherry 

 requires much pruning after the first two seasons, nor then 

 unless it be to form the branches into low and spreading 

 heads ; afterward an occasional cutting out of any cross 

 branches is all that is necessary. The best to transplant 

 are two-year old trees, and they are usually from four to six 

 feet in height. 



" I find, however, that some parties here have not met 

 with success in making their cherry trees bear. The diffi- 

 culty lies in forcing their growth by application of fertilizers 

 and w r ater, thus causing a luxuriant growth of wood and 

 foliage, which prevents the formation of fruit buds. After 

 your tree has attained bearing size, cease cultivating for 

 awhile and thus check the growth, and you will find that 

 they will bear you good crops. 



" From my own experience and observations I consider 

 the following varieties best adapted to our section and best 

 to plant. The two first-named are much superior in size 

 and quality to the others : Mt. Morency, Early Richmond, 

 .May Duke, Reine Hortense, Late Duke, English Morello." 



In the discussion that followed the article, Mr. Parsons 

 said that the cherry tree, as a rule, was not as hardy as other 

 fruit trees. 



Messrs. Hogue, Crawford, Snyder and others present 

 said that they thought the severity of last winter should 

 not discourage the planting of cherries, as the winter was 

 an unusually hard one on all fruit trees. 



It was generally agreed that too much water was the 

 ill that many cherries suffered from ; that they needed only 

 about as much water as the grape. 



Mr. Crawford said that after cherry trees were in full 

 bearing he thought they should be cultivated very little. 



In a communication to the Denver Times, Mr. D. S. 

 Grimes comments as follows upon Cherry Culture in Colo- 

 rado : " Many varieties of the cherry, pear and plum succeed 

 better in Colorado than they do in the western states bor- 



