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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July
Life’s really hectic
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He is a graduate of
Delaware Valley College,
Doylestown, in horticulture
Prior to becoming owner of
Cherry Hill in 1970, he
managed the operation for
seven years At that time it
was known as Shenk’s Fruit
Farm
As owner of Cherry
Hill,(he actually owns only
85 acres of the entire or
chard. The rest he rents) he
has made quite a few
changes.
“When I first came here
there were only three acres
of peaches and hardly any
bearing apples,” Haas
states “But, I’ve been
diversifying ” This move to
diversify is simply
Instead of making his customers climb ladders to
reach for the big sweet cherries on the tops of the
trees, Richard Haas has purchased a shaker to
knock all the fruit from the upper branches onto
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economic As Haas puls it
the cherry crop is one of tiie
most delicate of all crops,
and to depend on it, solelj, is
much too risky
Haas has also ex
perimented with new
varieties of trees. His dream
is convert his cherry orchard
to all dwarf trees
“If someone had a dwarf
cherry tree that I knew
would work. I’d start all
over”’ says Haas without
blinking an eye. “I’ve
piddled around with dwarf
trees for 14 years and I’m
beginning to wonder if I’ll
ever have a dwarf orchard.”
Haas sees several ad
vantages to dwarf trees, the
most obvious being the
elimination of ladders
“With dwarf trees it’s just
imsioi foi people topukund
I don't have to worn about
am accidents," he says
Right now theie are tluee
oi'i. ways to get dwarf
cheuy tiees. none of which
is widely used One root
stock is Colt” from
England, which is now being
studied at Penn State due to
a request from Haas That
root stock has to be under
quarantine for three years.
Another type is M x M,
developed by Lyle Brooks of
Oregon Haas has three
selections from that senes
presently planted in his
orchard.
Haas is also ex
perimenting on dwarfing
trees, himself He grafts a
North Star variety of cherry
onto a mazzard root stock
and then buds a cultivar.
Early Buriat, onto the North
Star So far, he has about a
dozen of this type of dwarf
tree. Five hundred more
cherry trees are being
readied to bud the cultivar
this year.
Apples have already been
dwarfed, and Haas has rows
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planted
ihc plants aio easiei to
manage, ' he says, ex
plaining why dwarfing has
alicadj been done with this
fruit But, mainly, there’s
an economic reason behind
why the apples are dwarfed
theie aie more apple
glowers in the state and
there has been more money
poured into research ”
So, in some ways, the
cherry crop is one that that
has an open field for in
novation And, Richard Haas
is always looking for a way
to improve the crop and his
orchard, in particular
- You know,” he says with
a grin “My boys will
probably be just like me
They’ll look at the way I’ve
come to run this orchard and
they’ll say, 'Dad has this all
messed up,’ and they may
change it But, I’m keeping a
book just for them I hope
they read it.”
If they do, perhaps they
will grow smart about the
cherry crop before they
grow old They’ll have a
good teacher
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Julie Greider, the daughter of Robert Greider,
Columbia R 2, smiles at the thought of eating the
big, delicious cherries she is picking
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