THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
289 
Good. 
Trumansburg, N. Y. 
D. R. Pease. 
In my judgment, there will be a large demand for cherry 
trees made upon the nurserymen, but the increase will be 
small as compared with the demand. At this moment I 
have 21 pickers in the field. The last time I went to sub¬ 
ordinate grange, a good brother warned people to beware of 
cherries—that if another orchard requiring the same number 
of pickers was established, there would be a dearth and fruit 
would remain on the tree to rot. Speaking of troubles, I 
may say that wet feet is the most common one—due to plant¬ 
ing on soil that lacks 
drainage. 
John W. Spencer, 
Westfield, N. Y. 
When”J trees are 
grown in^ soil suited 
t o cherry culture, 
the outlook is very 
promising. 
Brown Bros. Co., 
Ltd., 
Brown’s Nurs’es, Ont. 
There is always a 
good demand for 
cherries, and never 
sufficient on the 
market to meet the 
demand. The sweets 
retail at forty cents 
per pound, sours 
twenty to twenty-five 
cents per pound. 
Could not advise any¬ 
one to plant largely 
of cherries for com¬ 
mercial purposes. A 
small orchard of Rich¬ 
mond andtheMorellos 
would do well. 
P. J. Berckmans Co. 
Augusta, Ga. 
It seems to me 
that planting has been 
overdone, at least in 
sour varieties, and as 
soon as the fruit grow¬ 
ers realize it, there 
will probably be less 
demand for the trees. 
W. B. Cole, 
Painesville, O. 
On the increase. 
Monroe, Mich. 
The prices are likely to drop very low if all of the trees 
now planted come into bearing, but the acreage is likely to 
be greatly cut down by the winter-killing of the trees, owing 
to the loss of the leaves from leaf-spot where they are not 
sprayed. 
East Lansing, Mich. L. R. Taft. 
Not much doing in this vicinity. 
Bridgman, Mich. C. E. Whitten. 
Promises better in future. Demand for trees on increase, 
with advance in prices. 
Vincennes, Ind. W. C. Reed. 
Good. 
South Haven, Mich. Frank A. Wilken. 
We believe the outlook is promising. The fruit is always 
in great demand, and it seems the market is never really 
satisfied. 
Vincennes, Ind. H. M. Simpson & Sons. 
It is as bright as any fruit industry, if the people only 
gave proper care. 
The Coe, Converse & Edwards Co. 
Fort Atkinson, Wis. 
Good indeed. 
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. 
white oxheart 
I. E. Ilgenfritz’ Sons Co. 
A. L. Hatch. 
Doubt if commer¬ 
cially it will ever 
show more than a 
normal growth in this 
vicinity. 
Arthur Bryant 
& Son, 
Princeton, Ill. 
So long as northern 
Iowa and southern 
Minnesota offer 
practically unlimited 
market, the industry 
is bound to grow and 
succeed. 
Watrous Nurs. Co. 
Des Moines, la. 
I consider the out- 
1 o o k for cherries 
good. When you 
consider the great de¬ 
mand for cherries in 
the North, it seems 
to me we shall always 
have a good market. 
Wragg Nursery Co. 
Des Moines, la. 
Good. 
E. P. Bernardin, 
Parsons, Kans. 
Many cherries, 
especially sweets, are 
grown in this locality, 
and think outlook 
promising. 
Utah Nursery Co. 
Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Good. 
Davis Co. Nurseries 
Roy, Utah. 
Good; will increase speedily in our section, especially 
if some remedy or control is found for gummosis, which has 
ruined some fine young orchards. 
Portland, Ore. J. B. Pilkington. 
The outlook for cherry planting is good, as people are 
learning how to market this stock successfully in eastern 
markets, where there is a demand for high grade fruit. 
Sunnyside, Wash. The Sunnyside Nursery Co. 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
I do not understand the failure of sweet cherries to grow. 
There are near here on one farm at least fifty trees, and all 
forty or more years old. These old trees may be found all 
over the state bearing well. But sweet trees planted now 
fail under almost all conditions to grow at all. Of twenty 
varieties that I planted here in 1896, only Windsor and Down- 
SWEET varieties 
GOV. WOOD 
