A morphologic analysis of soil structure in a cherry orchard was carried out. The experimental object was founded in the soil lessive, formed from silt, situated on the cretaceous rock in the Felin Experimental Station of University of Agriculture in Lublin. To the soil care in the orchard, the following methods were applied: 1) sward, covering with hay; 2) covering with a black foil of polyethylene; 3) fallow soil (killing weeds with hoe); 4) fallow soil, treated with leaf herbicide (Roundup); 5) covering with wheat straw. The soil samples of undisturbed structure were taken in the vertical layer, using in metal boxes of dimension 9x8x4 cm, at spring 1999, from three layers: 2-10 cm, 12-20 cm, 32-40 cm. Then, the non-transparent soil blocks were performed; their surfaces were registered with the scanner, and printed in 256 shades of grey. Monochromic photographs of polished blocks were segmented using a computer program Aphelion. This way, it was possible to distinguish the solid phase in the picture (white colour) and the empty spaces (black colour). The most effective care method – as for their soil structure creating abilities – was covering with the foil and applying the leaf herbicide Roundup. After this method was applied, the soil was characterised by an aggregate or semi-aggregate biogenic structure within whole analysed of 0-40 cm.