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Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, very productive. 

 Fruit midseason; over one inch in diameter, long-cordate, compressed; 

 cavity deep, wide, flaring; suture a distinct line; ajtex much pointed; color 

 varying shades of bright red over a yellowish background, mottled; dots 

 obscure; stem slender, more than one inch long, adherent to the fruit; 

 skin thin, adherent; flesh white with a faint yellow tinge, with colorless 

 juice, tender, meaty, crisp, mild, sweet; good to very good in quality; 

 stone semi-clinging, small, ovate, flattened, pointed, with smooth surfaces. 



498. Yellow Spanish (Fig. 146). — For centuries Yellow Span- 

 ish was the best of all the Bigarreaus, and it is only in recent 

 years that it has had rivals. The trees are 

 the largest of all the varieties of sw^eet cher- 

 ries, and have an upright-spreading top, 

 which gives a large bearing surface and forms 

 a canoi)y of excellent foliage; they are vigor- 

 ous, bear abundantly and regularly, and come 

 in bearing young, wnth the crop well dis- 

 tributed. The cherries do not come up to the 

 trees in points of superiority ; they are smaller 

 than those of Napoleon, and are more subject 

 to attacks of brown-rot. In fruit Yellow 

 Spanish is rather the handsomer of the two 

 cherries ; in quality it is the better of the two, 

 having tenderer flesh and a sweeter and 

 richer flavor. Yellow Spanish is so old and 

 so wddely disseminated that its origin can 

 only be conjectured. The variety w^as im- 

 ported to America from London by the Princes, Flushing, Long 

 Island, in the year 1802. 



Tree very large and vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, produc- 

 tive. Fruit midseason ; 1 inch or over in diameter, cordate, compressed ; 

 cavity deep, wide, flaring; suture a mere line, apex rounded; color bright 

 amber-yellow with a reddish blush, slightly mottled; dots numerous, small, 

 light russet, obscure; stem ll^ inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin thin, 

 tough, separating from the pulp; flesh white, wuth colorless juice, tender, 

 meaty, crisp, aromatic, sprightly, sweet; very good to best in quality; 

 stone free, ovate, flattened, oblique, with smooth surfaces. 



Fig. 14G. Yellow 

 Spanish. 



