488 WISCONSIN FRUIT-GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
production. Such was my conclusion. To discover and to 
apply those principles successfully, have engaged much of my 
time and labor from that period to the present. Some of the 
results are twenty-three or twenty-four new varieties of the 
cherry figured in outline, and correctly described, in Mr. El¬ 
liott’s work on Fruits. Besides these, I have several other 
kinds which are of equal value, but which I have not yet deemed 
expedient to introduce to notice. The former twenty-three or 
twenty-four varieties, were bestowed gratuitously on the public. 
Of them, perhaps two only would stand your climate—the 
Shannon and Kirtland’s Morrello. Both were crosses from a 
Black Morello and an Arch Duke, and the prominent features 
of the two parents are evident in both of the progeny, though 
Mr. Lindsley informs his readers that the parents will not cross. 
These two seedlings would furnish fine parent stocks to breed 
with Early Richmond, Kentish, or other hardy kinds, in your 
localities. All of my seedlings would flourish in Wisconsin if 
propagated on Mahaleb stocks, and trained to walls as above 
suggested. My plan is to fecundate and cross all the blossoms 
on a large tree—hence there is hardly a limit to the number of 
good seedlings. 
I will briefly add, that for ordinary purposes in producing 
seedlings, it is well to select for the parent female, a variety of 
the finest qualities whose seeds are always prolific, then sur¬ 
round this tree with other trees of the same species, but of 
varieties abounding in positive qualities, such as we wish to 
combine in the progeny to be produced. The greater number, 
and the more varied are the male stocks, the greater the proba¬ 
bility of a favorable result. The seedlings thus produced will 
exhibit qualities of all degrees between the two parents. 
In testing them I usually select from the yearlings those of 
large but stubbed growth of wood, large leaves and full buds— 
those of inferior promise are rejected. 
Great aid in this process of crossing is rendered by various 
species of insects, who convey and mix the pollen upon the 
stigmas. Bees, especially, are faithful and profitable collabo¬ 
rators with the cultivator. 
