Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-06-28
Cherry Growing.

Doctor Lanternsu, of La Canada, in
forms the HERALD that the cherry trees
which he planted in that place are bear
ing very heavily. He has the Black
rartarian and the Governor Woods va
rieties, both of which are bearing fine
fruit, and yet some parties have the ig-
norance to state that cherries will not
thrive in Los Angeles county. The fact
is il is n lovely country for cherries, but
many persons have made failure in
raising them because they irrigated tho
trees in summer. That operation blasts
the fruit and causes the tree to grow too
much wood. Don't do it!
Cherries are much more profitable
fruit than oranges, and our high brush
land, that has heavy winter RAINFALL is
Just the place to raise this delicious
iruit. which everybody likes. Los An
geles is n good market for cherries, and
now sends away about S400 per day to
the central portion of the State to pay
for cherries. All these cherries can be
grown at home. and about SIG, 900 left
here among our fruit growers instead of
sending it abroad. The Petaluma Argas
last week gives an account of an orchard
of cherries near that place, as follows:
"By invitation of J w. Cassidy we took
{. walk through his immense cherry
orchard last Sunday, and were agreeably
surprised l-astonished- the sight. We
had supposed the cherry crop to be
little short of the average, hut il Mr.
Cassidy's orchard is any criterion the
yield is larger than usual, AT the time
of our visit the picking was at its height
He had all the men and boys he could
obtain, but could not find a sufficient
number of white laborers and had put
twenty Cinnamon to work. At the
packing house girls were employed pack
ing fruit in the boxes. The cherries
We're carted there in large boxes and re.
packed in ten pound boxes-all the bird
picked and imperfect fruit being reject
ed. Men handled the large boxes and
nailed up the small ones. The fruit was
veiy fine and intended Tor the retail
market of San Francisco, but as that
market has since been overlooked the
remainder of the immense crop will be
taken TO the Petaluma Canuery. He
has about ten acres in cherries, and as
most Of his trees are from eight to
twenty.three years old, aud each tree
having from two to five hundred pounds
of fruit, some idea of the magnitude of
the crop can be formed. We saw a
number of trees that would yield consid-
erably over live hundred pounds to the
tree.
This statement of the Argus is of great
interest 10 the people of Los Angeles
county. Here is an orchard of ten acres
that will produce more money than 100
acres of wheat. Then think of plowing
aud sowing 100 acres of grain and what
it costs for seed, while the cherry tree is
planted only once in generation.
a ten acre lot will contain 80 cherry
trees, which in full bearing will yield
800 pounds of fruit that will average
about 10 cents per pound, making $50
per tree, or So 800 as the yield OF the
trees IN full bearing. This is probably
an extreme result, but on the suppos.
tion that halt this result is reached
yield Of $751; is reached from ten
acres of land. That amount is certainly
enough TO satisfy anybody.
Who will plant a ten acre cherry
orchard of May Duke, Black rartarian
and Governor Woods varieties, and an.
nou,:ce the result!