The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-01-20

cherry in it's northern range of
adaptability, So far as the cold
factor is concerned, corresponds
rather closely with the peach.
While / have no tangible proof,
my impression is that a good
many attempts to grow the sweet
cherry, at least in small way
and for home production, have
failed due in part to the stock on
which the trees are propagated.
The eastern nurserymen very gen.
orally use mahaleb stocks for all
cherry preparations. There are
exceptions to this but such excep-
tions are so limited that they ra-
ther emphasize the prevalence of
the mahaleb cherry as the stock
generally used. While sweet cher
ry trees, propagated on mahaleb
stocks ordinarily start off very
well in the nursery, they apparent
ly fail good many times before
they come into bearing because OF
difficulties that develop at the
point of union.
While have no definite infor-
nation with respect to the COM
parative planting of sweet and
sour cherries during the last ten
years in the eastern cherry grow
ing sections, I have no reason to
think that the proportion of sweet
cherries is any larger than it was
ten years ago. The bearing which
this situation may have on your
interests. provided my impression
is correct. is that the tendency or
the prevailing practices in the es-
tablished cherry growing sections
appear to be pretty well establish
ed with little apparent tendency to
vary the paintings from what they
have been for many years past.
No one can say that larger pro-
portion of sweet cherries will not
be, planted in the future than in
the past but it would represent a
pretty radical departure from the
practice up to the present time if
that should occur.
There is one point raised in
your letter which / think can be
settled pretty definitely and that
is your question as to the grow
ing of sweet cherries in the Gulf
states where the temperature con-
ditions are such as to avoid the
problem of temperature injury.
think that it is perfectly safe to
say that the Gulf states will never
produce cherries of any variety OF
type in quantity until a variety
with a very different range Of
adaptability than any now known
appears. While as indicated, the
northern range Of adaptability Of
the sweet cherry conforms in {
general way with that of the
peach, it's southern extension doe:
not coincide with that of the
peach. In fact, / do not know Of
any evidence that would indicate
that sweet cherries can be grown
further south than sour cherries
| Neither type thrives in the lons
hot and frequently dry summers
which characterize the southern
states. Very few cherries of an!
| type are grown south of the gen
feral latitude of the District O.
Columbia, southern Ohio, centra
Illinois and Indiana, and CORES
| ponding ATTITUDES farther west
However, there are few in tn,
| mountain areas farther south a
for instance in the Ozark region
altho not very many are produce,
in that section. A few are grow
| in western Oklahoma and western
Texas but so little fruit of an.
kind is grown in that region tina
what is produced is marketed 10
cally.
i 1t is quite impossible to max
any definite prediction with re
spect to the development of swee
cherry production east of tn
Rockies in the next ten or twent
years. However, speaking merel
from my own personal .viewpoin