Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1919 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

PLANT MORE CHERRY TREES Good Reasons for Urging Increased Cultivation of Useful and Pretty Bearers of Fruit. Although .In at least two states, Pennsylvania and Ohio, there pre more than 1,000,000 cherry trees and nearly as many in several other states, the commercial interests are relatively small compared with several other fruits in which the number of trees is considerably less. , In the south the summers are too long and hot, as a rule, for cherries to do well, and they do their best at the higher altitudes. In their endurance of low temperatures sour cherries compare favorably with apples. Sweet cherries are less hardy than sour sorts. Their endurance of cold corresponds more nearly to that of the peach. Cherries are sensitive to a poorly drained soil. Clay soils, extremely retentive of moisture, give the poorest results, and the lighter, better drained soils the best. Soils that dry out excessively are also unsatisfactory. Moderately productive soils give better results than those which represent either extreme in fertility. Cherries blossom comparatively early, the - sweet ... sorts earlier in most cases than the sour varieties; therefore sites that are subject to spring frosts during the usual blossoming period should be avoided.