476 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



stemmed Montmorency {Montmorency d courte queue), and Gros- 

 Gobet ; in England and America it is often called Flemish Cherry 

 or Flemish Montmorency. -^See Downing, 480 ; Leroy, v. 3G5 ; 

 Lauche, Deutsche Pomologie, Kirschen, 19.) This variety is 

 characterized by a very short stem, which at once distinguishes it 

 from other cherries. Leroy 's diagram of the fruit of this Large- 

 fruited Montmorency is here reproduced (Fig. 79). I do not know that 

 this variety now exists in this country. It was early imported, with 



79. — Large- fruited 

 or Short-stemmed 

 Montmorency. 

 (After Leroy.) 



80.— Early Richmond. 



other sorts, by Ellwanger & Barry. They grew it as Montmorency 

 d courte queue, and applied the name Montmorency Large-fruited 

 to another cherry, which W. C. Barry tells me was superior to the 

 common Montmorency in quality, but which proved to be unpro- 

 ductive. So it haj^pens that the Montmorency Large-fruited of 

 western New York is not the French variety of that name. It 

 should be remarked, in passing, that the standard and monumental 

 work of Poiteau (Pomologie Francaise) contains no such varieties or 

 synonyms as Montmorency ordinaire and Montmorency a gros fruit 

 (large-fruited), but Leroy, whom I have quoted, has recently (1877) 

 made an elaborate attempt to nntangle the synonymy. 



Early Richmond (Fig. 80) is the only other A marelle, or white- 

 juiced cherry, which is grown to any extent in western New York, 

 and this is not very valuable. Its flavor and quality are poor, the 

 fruit is soft and small, and it is so early that it competes with the 



