Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-29
News In tho Cherry Line.

By Nj. Butterlield, FarmingtOn MOL
A study of the cherry in all of its
ages from the seeding up to maturity,
demonstrates that the cherry is one of
he first fruit trees to complete it's
growth in the summer, having seen 1t
successfully trinsplanted In mid-Aug-
ust. This is one reason why the
cherry does we'll in the sod and around
our houses where the ground gets hard
and dry. We find ii best to trans
plant young trees, one year from bud
being preferable, or two year old at thu
most They should always be on WE'LL
drained ground. as wet feet is almost
sure death to a cherry. Another i'm
poltant item is to never prune a cher
ry tree after planting 1T. do not know
of a single variety of fruit that is in
jured more by pruning.
Varieties. well, ] must confess that
the list Is very short. l have tested
forty varieties at Lees Summit in the
last twenty-five years and can only
recommend four for profit. However.
l have added some fifteen or twenty
new ones i'll the last six years on my
experimental grounds in Pennington
and hope to get something good out of
the lot. But we fruit men live largely
on hope; we watch. wait and then cut
down and burn awhile, then try again.
The varieties that have proven
themselves adapted to this section are
early Richmond, large Moptmorency,
English Morrello and Wragg. The
fruit this year on 4-year- old trees. The
f,.Il 10, ;p,,l
more upright than the large Montmor-
ency, the fruit probably averages a
little larger and possibly three to five
days later; fruit stems a little shorter
These varieties are all Of the Morrello
family The Napoleon Bigareau Is
probably the best of it's type: 1t Is es-
pecially valuable as a shade and orna ;
mental tree, and bears quite often.
Will say that ! have spent more time
and money on the sweet cherries than
any other class of the cherry family. I
do not think there is any fruit we
grow quite as good as the sweet cher
ry, like we used to grow in the east,
when | was boy.
| accidentally found a sweet cherry
in Franklin county, Missouri, that I
think nearly fills the bill, and one that
seems to be 1T home in the west. IT
was brought from Virginia, some forty
or fifty years ago, with some fifty other
seedlings, In q trunk and planted in the
fence corners. In fact In that neigh
horhood there seems to have been a
number of lots of seedlings brought
about that time, but in the entire lot
there was only the one that seemed to
have any real merit. 1t Is very large,
an excellent shipper and most Won
derful bearer. Tree very large, up
right, spreading habit and in height
some forty or fifty feet, with very
wide spread and probably seven or
eight feet in circumference. pro-
cured about 200 buds and succeeded in
raising eight or ten trees This was
five years ago this June and the young
trees have bloomed for two years and
last year set some fine specimens OF
fruit. l will watch this variety closely
and see how 1t will do. Its season of
rirening is June I to 5.
/ also have a Morrello from Saline
county, Missouri, that Is very proms-
ing. 1t is large, late black cherry,
more dwarf than the English Morrello.
also have a number Of other var
ieties that are certainly very promis-
ing and should L live a hundred years
or SO. may succeed in getting some
thing real good and If do not can
say that I have had a lot of real
pleasure for, as the old saying is:
There is more pleasure in pursuit
thar in possession.