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Super Hardy Tart Cherries<br />
EVAN’S This Morello-type, tart cherry with crimson flesh<br />
and rich red juice was found near Edmonton, Alberta,<br />
which explains its exceptional cold tolerance. Naturally<br />
dwarf, rounded trees grow to 10’ and annually produce<br />
heavy flower and fruit crops. An exceptional choice for<br />
commercial & home orchard use, especially in the north.<br />
USDA Zones 3-8. Gisela®5. C886G: $29.95 each<br />
SITKA NEW! A tart cherry grown in SE Alaska and<br />
reportedly brought over from Siberia. It is the best<br />
producing cherry in SE Alaska’s cool wet climate. One<br />
quart pot. USDA Zones 4-9. C897: $22.50 each<br />
Cherry Accessories<br />
BIRD SCARE TAPE This tough 7/16” wide shining metallic<br />
tape is red on one side and silver on the other and its<br />
shimmering scares the birds. 290’ roll. T080: $4.95 each<br />
CHERRY STONER/SUCTION BASE<br />
The Victorio Cherry Stoner handles<br />
up to 30 pounds of cherries per hour.<br />
Feeds and separates pits from fruits<br />
with little loss of juices. It has a one<br />
year warranty. T383: $27.95 each<br />
HEAVY DUTY COMMERCIAL BIRD NETTING BY THE<br />
FOOT We have long rolls of bird netting. Use it over<br />
grapes or build a structure over blueberries or dwarf<br />
cherry trees. Secure with clothespins at the bottom.<br />
(Cut to order at 5’ intervals, 25’ minimum length per<br />
piece. This is 22 feet wide. This white netting is top rated<br />
commercially and is rated for 10 years if taken in for the<br />
winter. T431: $1.50 per foot<br />
How To Use Cherries<br />
IN THE LANDSCAPE: Sweet cherry trees make attractive<br />
yard trees with their rich green, large, serrated leaves and<br />
lovely fragrant white spring blossoms. Pie cherry trees have<br />
darker leaves and make good smaller yard trees.<br />
Useful Facts<br />
HARDINESS: Our Gisela® dwarf rootstocks are hardy to at<br />
least -25° F. Sweet cherries are USDA Zones 5-9; tart cherries<br />
are USDA Zones 4-9 unless noted.<br />
SUN OR SHADE: Full sun. ORIGIN: Eastern Europe.<br />
LIFE EXPECTANCY: 35 years. YEARS TO FRUIT: 2-3<br />
MATURE TREE YIELD: 25-50 pounds. HEIGHT & SPACING:<br />
12 feet.<br />
How To Grow<br />
SOILS: Avoid heavy clay and wet soils for sweet cherries.<br />
PRUNING: See Tree Owners Manual that comes with each order.<br />
PESTS: Birds like cherries and eat many just before we humans<br />
do. Yellow fruited varieties don’t attract birds! Selecting<br />
varieties on dwarf rootstocks and using netting and scare tape<br />
will help you get the fruit.<br />
POLLINATION: Some sweet cherries need another sweet<br />
cherry as a pollinizer. Some don’t pollinate each other. Tart<br />
cherries are self-fertile but won’t pollinate sweet cherries. See<br />
the pollination chart.<br />
For Your Health<br />
Tart cherry juice can reduce inflammation and is used to treat<br />
gout. Eat your cherries soon after harvest because the antioxidants<br />
begin being depleted soon after picking. Among the<br />
sweet cherries, Hartland tested highest in antioxidants.<br />
The Gisela® Dwarf Rootstock: Incredibly Productive<br />
We offer virus-free cherry tained at 10-12’ tall.<br />
trees on the dwarfing Gisela® 3 We are also offering the Gisela®<br />
and 5 rootstocks.<br />
3 rootstock which is the most<br />
Developed over 30 years, at dwarfing of the Gisela® rootstocks,<br />
making a tree that grows<br />
the University of Giessen in<br />
Germany, these rootstocks have to only 8-10 feet tall. It tends to<br />
proven their value throughout make a broad tree excellent for a<br />
the U.S. in the NC 140 rootstock small area. Its small size and early<br />
trials.<br />
heavy bearing are great attributes<br />
The large royalties we have to but because of this, the tree<br />
pay on the rootstocks account needs good growing conditions<br />
for the higher price. However, the to thrive. It is very precocious<br />
years you gain in early production<br />
and easy picking make it well at an early age.<br />
prompting the tree to bear heavily<br />
worth it. Patents make it illegal for It may require fruit thinning<br />
gardeners to propagate Giessen to maintain fruit size and avoid<br />
rootstocks without an expensive overbearing and having the tree<br />
license. However, we offer for sale stop growing. Regular irrigation<br />
the VSL 2 (Krymsk 5 TM ) dwarfing is needed. It is not recommended<br />
cherry rootstock on page 57. for the heaviest bearing cultivars<br />
Gisela®5® induces early and like Sweetheart. It is recommended<br />
that dormant pruning on all<br />
heavy fruit production, is very<br />
winter hardy and thrives on a dwarf cherry trees be done in late<br />
wide variety of soils. This rootstock<br />
is not only very dwarfing reduces the chance of bacterial<br />
winter before bloom time which<br />
but also disease resistant, making<br />
a tree that can be<br />
canker infestations.<br />
main-<br />
Early Burlat<br />
Royal Lee<br />
Minnie Royal<br />
Stella<br />
E. Francis<br />
Lapins<br />
Hartland<br />
Black Gold<br />
Danube<br />
Nugent<br />
CHERRY RIPENING ORDER<br />
Kristen<br />
Angela<br />
White Gold<br />
Rainier<br />
Bing<br />
Sam<br />
Vandalay<br />
Tehranivee<br />
Craig’s Crimson<br />
Nugent<br />
Sweetheart<br />
Lambert<br />
Almaden<br />
Hudson<br />
Montmorency<br />
K. Sweet<br />
Surefire<br />
Morello<br />
Nugent<br />
42 Order online at www.RaintreeNursery.com or call 1-800-391-8892.
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