Straw mulch trial was conducted with 6-year-old cuhivars Cerasus avium ' Hongdeng' in sweet cherry orchard. As a control, bare soil was reciprocally arranged with covered region for three times in 0.033-hectare testing plots. The results showed that straw mulching could predate vigorous growth of vegetative shoot of cherry. Compared with control, the length, diameter, 100-leave weight, and dimension per leaf of vegetative shoot were increased by 20.4%, 30.2%, 20.5% and 5.3%, respectively. There had been 35.8% and 54.7% increase in the content...