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usually ripening a few fruits as early as the beginning of June; size, 

 scarcely medium; color, dark purple, almost black; quality, fair. 



Coe Transparent, one of the most beautiful of the sweet cherries, fol- 

 lows the foregoing. The tree is vigorous and productive, ripening its 

 fruit about with the earliest acid cherries. 



Elton and Black Eagle, the former pale yellow, with a red cheek, and 

 the latter black, will constitute a good succession with the foregoing. 



Downer Late and Yellow Spanish will ripen next. The former a large, 

 light red, very productive variety ; and the latter very firm, the type of the 

 Bigarreaus, but unfortunately liable to crack and decay if warm, moist 

 weather occurs during its ripening season. 



Windsor is a very recent accession .to this class of cherries, said to 

 ripen even later than the foregoing. If the high commendations of 

 prominent horticulturists who have fruited it, shall be verified, it may 

 doubtless be planted to close the season in succession with the foregoing. 



Of the Dukes and Morellos: 



Choisy, ripening about the middle of June, may well be assigned the 

 first place as the finest, as well as the most beautiful of cherries, of any 

 class, its only drawback being its somewhat deficient productiveness. 



Early Richmond, ripening with the foregoing, will well serve the need 

 of this season for culinary purposes. 



May Duke, the type of the class of Dukes, comes in about this time, and 

 with Montmorency for cooking, will extend the cherry season till the end 

 of June. 



Late Duke and Louis Phillippe will extend the season nearly or quite 

 through July, while Magnifique may be used to continue this fruit well 

 into August. 



For a market list of sweet cherries, a good selection would be: 1st, 

 Black Tartarian; 2d, Napoleon; 3d, Downer. 



Of Dukes and Morellos: 



1st, Early Richmond and May Duke; 2d, Louis Phillippe and Magnifique. 



MIJLBERRY— Morus. 



Although the Mulberry is occasionally found, indigenous, in Michigan 

 forests, those introduced to cultivation are believed to be generally of 

 foreign parentage, and can scarcely be considered hardy, even in southern 

 Michigan, except under specially favorable conditions. 



Downing, sometimes designated as Everbearing, is an American seedling 

 of Multicaulis (Morns alba) ripening its fruit in succession daring a con- 

 siderable period. It fails to withstand even the average winters of central 

 Michigan, and even in the milder winters of the lake shore region it is 

 occasionally injured. 



Hicks (of the real parentage of which we are not informed) is similar 

 in habit of growth to the foregoing. It came out of the recent winter 

 (the first since planting it here) uninjured. It is said to have originated 

 in Kentucky. 



New American has been in cultivation several years at least. It is quite 

 distinct in habit of growth from either of the foregoing, and appears to 

 be somewhat hardier than Downing. Quite possibly it may be a seedling 

 of the native red mulberry (M. rubra). 



Russian (occasionally catalogued by nurserymen as M. Sib erica) is 

 supposed to be a hardy form of the European or Asiatic, M. nigra. The 



