CHERRY : 423 
The sour cherry should be planted 18 by 18 ft. apart, in well-prepared, 
under-drained soil. The trees may be slightly trimmed back each year, 
keeping the head low and bushy. 
The sweet cherries have proved disappointing in many instances 
from the rotting of the fruit. This may never be entirely avoided, but 
good cultivation, soil 
not too rich in nitro- 
gen, attention to 
spraying, and picking 
the fruit when: dry, 
will lessen the loss 
very much. In years 
of severe rotting the 
fruit should be picked 
before it becomes fully 
ripe, placed in a cool, 
airy room and allowed 
to color. It will be 
nearly as well flavored as if left on the tree; and, as the fungus usually 
attacks only the ripe fruit, a considerable part of the crop may be 
saved. Set the trees 25 or 30 ft. apart. Only very well-drained land 
should be devoted to sweet cherries, preferably one of a somewhat 
gravelly nature. 
Leaf-blight is readily controlled by timely spraying with bordeaux 
mixture (see bottom p. 211). The curculio or fruit worm may be con- 
trolled by jarring, as for plums, or by spraying (p. 202). The jarring 
process is seldom employed with cherries for the curculio, inasmuch 
as the poison spray seems, for some reason, to be particularly effec- 
tive on these fruits. 
275. Sour or pie cherries. 
Varieties of cherry. 
Of the sour varieties, May Duke (Fig. 36), Richmond, Dvyehouse, 
Montmorency, Ostheim, Hortense (Fig. 34), Late Kentish, Suda, and 
Morello (English Morello) (Fig. 35) are the most valuable. The fol- 
lowing sweet varieties are of value where they succeed: Rockport, 
(Yellow) Spanish, Elton, (Governor) Wood, Coc, Windsor, (Black) 
Tartarian, and Downer. 
