The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-11-15


that the monstrous apples like the
Wolf River, Spokane Beauty, Bis
marck. Alexander, Gloria Mundi, Mon
strous Pippin and the like, are I'M
profitable for commercial growing
Even our good apples, if over size and
have to be packed as three tier or
three and half tier, will not sell near
ly as well as the same apples packed
four tier. We had a big display of
these monstrosities at the Lewis and
Clark fair People would almost grow
wild at the sight of these apples and
many times would inquire of me where
the trees could be secured. One day
this question was asked H. e. Van
Deman in my presence and his reply
was, ''You don't want such apples at
all unless for novelties" He told the
inquirer not to plant more than one
tree of such apples. Let man try to
sell these apples in any considerable
quantities and he will learn a lesson
that will do him good. So | say that
an agent who goes about selling such
trees for q commercial orchard is ig-
nOrant or dishonest. Any nursery
man who encourages such a thing
must be dishonest for he knows
better. Mr.. Dukes wants to know if
know anything about stoneless plum
said to be the production of Luther
Burbank. No.
B. E. Crandall, who has an orchard
in the White Salmon valley 1900 feet
above sea level, wants to know how
high to head his fruit trees; says they
have plenty of wind and plenty OF
snow. 1t is hard to answer such
question. Where strong winds pre-
vail the rule is to head low, but where
the snow is deep to head high Deep
SHOWS are apt to break the low limbs
of low headed trees. The snow, when
it melts a little, freezes to the limbs
and when it settles takes the limbs
down with it. The only thing | can
see to be done in such cases is to
choose between evils. He is now
heading his trees 80 to SO inches high.
| do not see that he could do any
better under the circumstances.
F. Johnson, of Mount Vernon, Wash,
under date of Nov 5, writes: 81
would like to know a few things
about what kind of cherry trees to
plant also plums, pears and prunes.'
The common cultivated cherries are
classed under two heads, viz, sour
cherries (prunus cerasus) and sweet
cherries (prunus avium). AS a rule
the sour cherries, such as the Early
Richmond, English MorellO and the
Wragg, are much harder than the
sweet varieties and are grown and pro-
duce profitable crops where the sweet
varieties cannot be grown at all.
These sour cherries are called pie
cherries and are not fit for much else
They are enormously productive and
there is quite a demand for them In
our markets, but they do not sell as
high as the sweet varieties. We grow
both the sour and sweet varieties on
our ranch in the Yakima valley and
they do we'll and sell readily. In
planting the sour variety I would give
first choice to the Early Richmond, and
next to that the English Morello or
the Wragg.
The sweet cherries do very we'll
in the Willamette valley and the Puget
Sound country. If | were planting a
cherry orchard in either of these sec
lions l would not plant many of the
scrub kinds. The sweet cherries that
| would recommend are the Royal
Ann, the Black Republican, the Gov
ernor Wood, the Bing, the Lambert
and the Oregon. I should from all
have seen, give the preference to the
Bing. 1t is a very large black cherry
in fact, the finest cherry l ever saw.
The Lambert is also very large but
of a somewhat dull red color. The
Royal Ann is we'll known and is a
very fine cherry and perhaps the best
known of all the sweet varieties.
Is Il
There is q family of cherries known