Pomology", Gardening, Forestry, Horticulture, Rural Architecture, Bees. 



Vol. I. 



DES MOINES, IOWA ; LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER, 1870. 



No. 9 



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For the Weetern Pomolcgiet. 



A New Cherry-" Dyehouse." 



BY n. T. HARRIS, STANFORD, KT. 



Ed. Pomologist :— Last March I wrote an 

 article which was published in the Horticvl- 

 titrmt for that mouth, describing what I 

 considered a new seedling Morello cherry. — 

 The article brought me an extended corres- 

 pondence from all parts of our country — 

 even from California and Utah. Until then, 

 I had no idea of the demand, in rigid 

 climates, for an early and hardy cherry. — 

 Such was the interest manifested in it that. I 

 wrote a second and more extended descrip- 

 tion of the fruit, which was published in the 

 Rural New Yorker, in June sometime. This 

 brought me more letters, asliing many ques- 

 tions and seeking to obtain trees. In order 

 to ascertain whether this was really a new 

 fruit, or some old kind unknown in this 

 region, I sent some of the earliest to ripen 

 to F. R. Elliott, au eminent horticulturist of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, for his opinion. The 

 specimens sent were not kept perfect during 

 transportation, and Mr. E. pronounced them 

 the " Belle de Sceaux, or " perhaps some 

 new seedling." I subsequently sent him 

 more of the fruit, which he got in good 

 order, and he pronounced it the "Early 

 Richmond.' In this, however, I doubt not 

 that he is mistaken, as a comparison of that 

 kind with mine exliibited a marked distinc- 

 tion, and tlie cherry I claim to be new is 

 better, earlier, hardier, and far more desira- 

 ble everyway. Nowhere in Kentucky can 

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I hear of such a cherry as mine, and only in 

 a single county can it be found. The 

 history of this fruit is briefly this : 



Thirty or more years ago the tree was 

 discovered In a remote part of our county 

 (Lincoln) on the farm of a poor and illiter- 

 ate man by the name of Dyehouse. It was 

 found growing in a Morello orchard where 

 no Earl}' Richmond had ever been planted, 

 and it has been bearing regular crops for a 

 quarter of a century or more, never having 

 failed to bear but one. Numerous suckers 

 have sprung up from it, and they have been 

 di.sseminated over this county in various 

 places and bear the same fruit. It is the 

 surest bearer I know of — ripens the last 

 days of May in our latitude ; color a clear, 

 bright pink ; nearly opaque ; skin thin, and 

 the fruit rich with a singularly spicy acid; 

 not half so sour as the old Morello or Early 

 Richmond either, to my taste. The tree is 

 nearly a semi-dwarf, the branches not so 

 willowy or pendant as the Morello. It is of 

 a very decided Morello type, but partakes 

 in wood, growth, fruit, etc., of both the 

 Morrello and Duke families. 



Those who can procure the fruit in its sea- 

 son prefer to buy it at almost any price to 

 make preserves or tarts, rather than use any 

 other kind, although it may be had for the 

 gathering from their own or the trees of 

 their neighbors. Until within the last eight 

 j'cars, this fruit could only be had on the 

 farm where it originated. Eight years ago 

 I purchased about fifty of the two year old 

 " sprouts," and three years from that time I 

 had all the cherries I wanted, and a few to 

 spare; such is the rapidity of its growth and 

 the early bearing of the tree. For the past 

 two or three years I have had bushels of 

 them on my trees and have never been able 

 to supply half the local village demand for 

 the fruit. They come in with the srtawberry 

 crop, and sell more readily than that charm- 

 ing fruit. 



I have gratuitously disseminated over 

 fifty of these tree in many parts of our di- 

 versified climate, with a view solely to do 

 some good deed in horticulture. Last spring 

 I sent out about two hundred (a part of 

 which I purchased) in exchange for other 

 stock, and for cash at about cost. I have 

 many orders for these trees for fall delivery, 

 and should I send out any it will not be as a 



spectdation, for I should only charge enough 

 to pay for the trees and the trouble of dig- 

 ging, packing, and shipping. I have a small 

 nursery, which I keep as an amateur cultiva- 

 tor, to gratify an inherent fondness for hor- 

 ticulture, and to aid, as far as my time and 

 means will allow, in advancing this beauti- 

 ful and humanizing science, to the end that 

 our whole noble country shall teem with our 

 native and best fruits. 



The supply of these trees will not exceed 

 two hundred the present season, and of 

 course but few could be sent to any one lo - 

 cality. I desire to see it tried in the most 

 rigid and bleakest portions of our country, 

 and we have sent trees to Iowa, Minnesota, 

 Michigan, Maine, &c., &c. I shall, in Octo- 

 ber next, send you a few choice specimens 

 gratuitously, for trial in your grounds. If 

 I know my own heart, 1 would not know- 

 ingly disseminate an old fruit under a new 

 name ; in any manner lend my pen or purse 

 in the interest of a "humbug." This maj/ 

 be a " sprout ' ' or seedling of some old kind 

 —it may be what Mr. Elliott designates it — 

 the 'Early Richmond' — but if it is, we cannot 

 have discover its indentity ; nor can we ac- 

 count for how it got into an old Morello 

 thicket, on the secluded grounds of an old 

 man who scarce knows a cherry from a 

 grape ; and who lives away from civilization, 

 almost, (so to speak,) in the eastern hills of 

 our county. Besides, is it not a fact that 

 many of our choicest fruits are brought out 

 in this strange and unexpected manner ; and 

 is it not highly probable this is a seedling 

 and new? Such, at any rate I deem it, and 

 shall continue so to unless further light is 

 given which will establish its identity with 



some old sort. 



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Wagner Apple. — Mr. C. A. KnifHn, 

 Mich., writes to the Rural New Torker ■■ — " I 

 find the Waguer exceeds my expectatioi.s as 

 a long keeper. June 10th I compared it with 

 the Golden Russet, and find that it excels my 

 old favorite as a laster, being sound to the 

 core, fresh and delicious, and not surpassed 

 in delicacy and aroma by any apple that I 

 ever tasted. In fact, it is almost a substitute 

 for a Bartlett pear in June." 



The Currant Worm.— A correspondent 

 of the Horticulturist has found his red cur- 

 rants untouched by the worm, where stand- 

 ing alongside the black currants, while in 

 other parts of his grounds the foliags was 

 utterly destroyed. 



