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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
CHERRY GROWERS ADVISED OF IMPROVED SORT 
Chase Sour Cherry Should Supplant Morello, Say Fruit. 
Men From the Xew York Agricultural Station 
The Chase sour cherry, believed to have originated near Riga, 
Monroe County, New York, has proved so satisfactory on the 
grounds of the Experiment Station at Geneva that the Station 
fruit specialists are recommending that it be planted in place 
of English Morello, the standard late sour cherry for North 
America. The Chase is described as being of the same type of 
cherry as the .Morello but with fewer faults. 
“The trees of the Chase are larger, healthier, more spreading, 
and the branches do not droop as do those of Morello,” says 
the Station horticulturist. “The leaves are larger and the fruit 
better distributed. The cherries are larger; possess the same 
dark color and shape of the Morello, except with a deeper cav¬ 
ity; and ripen a little earlier, but are much milder in flavor and 
therefore pleasanter to eat out of hand than the sour, astrin¬ 
gent Morello. The Chase is an improved Morello and should 
be planted in place of that well-known variety.” 
RED SPY NOW OFFERED APPLE GROWERS 
Offshoot From Northern Spy Attracts by Its 
Beauty of Fruit 
A typical Northern Spy apple with a solid, bright red color 
without stripes or splashes grown on the grounds of the New 
York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, is attracting 
much attention among fruit growers and is declared by all those 
who have seen it to be the handsomest Spy ever seen. Cions of 
the Red Spy were received by the Station horticulturists in 1910 
from C. E. Green of Victor, New York, but the trees did not 
fruit until 1920. The color of the fruit is the only difference to 
be noted between this new sort and its parent. 
“Whoever grows Northern Spy, either for profit or pleasure, 
should try Red Spy,” says the Station horticulturist. “It is true 
that the new variety has the serious fault of the parent, that of 
coming in bearing late, but there are many good characters tx 
offset this fault. Thus, there are delectable quality and great 
beauty in the fruits, and in the tree hardiness, healthfulness, 
productiveness, and reliability in bearing to commend these two 
varieties. Nor should it be forgotten that the trees are long 
lived, nearly perfect orchard plants, and they bloom very late 
thereby often escaping late spring frosts which ruin the crops 
of other varieties. Northern Spy is still one of the best apples 
for New York, and Red Spy, with its beautiful fruits, will give 
new life to this old sort.” 
Trees Greatly Weakened By Repeated Attacks of Disease 
Last summer many cherry plantings in New York State shed 
their leaves prematurely due to a severe outbreak of the cherry 
leaf spot disease, says the plant disease specialist at the New 
York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva. The early 
shedding of the leaves in this way, year after year, greatly 
weakens the trees and may eventually kill them, it is said. Last 
year’s fallen leaves will be the chief source of infection this 
spring unless they were plowed under in the fall, says this Sta 
tion authority, and in any event the fruit grower will find it 
well worth while to take the necessary steps to prevent another 
outbreak of the disease this coming season. 
“Removing the chief source of infection by plowing under the 
leaves is the first step in the successful control of the disease, ’ 
says the Station specialist, “but plans should be made for fol¬ 
lowing this up with lime-sulphur spray to be applied (1) just as 
the petals fall in the spring, (2) about ten days later, and (3) 
just before the fruit turns red. A fourth application is some¬ 
times made to good advantage shortly after fruit is harvested. 
Sweet and sour cherries are equally susceptible to the disease, 
but care must be exercised in spraying sweet cherries as they 
are subject to burning with lime-sulphur. A mixture containing 
1 gallon of standard strength lime-sulfur to 40 gallons of water 
will give best results with sour cherries, while for sweet cher 
ries the proportion should be 1 gallon of lime-sulfur to 50 gal¬ 
lons of water.” 
NITROGEN BENEFITS ORCHARD IN SOD MULCH 
Mr. L. A. Bregger, who lias an orchard of Jonathan 
apple trees in sod mulch, reports that he applied quick- 
acting nitrogen in the form of sulphate of ammonia to 
Iris trees at the rate of 5 pounds a piece early last spring. 
Two rows clear across the orchard were so treated, the 
row between them being left untreated. While an actual 
measurement of the yields was not made, Mr. Bregger 
states that according to his observation each of the fer¬ 
tilized rows yielded at least twice as much as the unfer¬ 
tilized row, making the experiment very well worth 
while, though as might have been expected, the unfertil¬ 
ized fruit being fewer in number ran larger and matured 
earlier. 
The trees are 21 years old and are set 32 feet apart in 
rows spaced 36 feet, so that the application was at the 
rate of about 190 pounds per acre. 
