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Plants large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense, very productive, healthy; young 

 shoots rather few, stocky, dark brown overlaid with dull gray; leaf-buds characteristically 

 very small, short, pointed, lean, appressed, glabrous; leaves cordate to subcordate at the 

 base, with obtuse lobes, thin, dark green, dull, rugose, glabrous, with crenate margins; 

 petiole medium in length and thickness, pubescent, greenish. Flowers early, in long, 

 drooping, many-flowered racemes; calyx-tube green, saucer-shaped, glabrous; calyx-lobes 

 sometimes overlapping, yellowish green; ring of medium size, well developed, fleshy; 

 ovary glabrous. Fruit midseason, easily picked; clusters long, loose, with 15-24 berries; 

 cluster-stems and berry-stems long, slender; berries adhere well after ripening, medium to 

 large, roundish or slightly oblate, attractive, light, bright red; skin smooth, thin, tough, 

 translucent; flesh moderately juicy, sprightly to tart; quality very good. 



Chenonceau. i. Guide Prat. 22. 1895. 2. Card. Citron. 3rd Ser. 62:217. iQi?- 



A distinct form of the Versailles type, having shorter bunches and ripening later. 

 Of little merit. 



Cherry, i. Mag. Hor/. 21:425, fig. 19. 1855. 2. Kogg Fruit Man. $18. 1884. 3. Ohio 

 5<a. 5mZ. 371:328, 365. 1923. 



Cerise. 4. Horticulturist i:4.T,g. 1846-47. 



Macrocarpa. 5. Mag. Hort. 25:32. 1859. 



Groseille Cerise. 6. Pom. France. 8:No. i, PI. i. 1873. 



Perhaps this is the most popular currant for home and market use in America. It 

 is esteemed for its large bunches and berries, and its vigorous, healthy plants. Cherry is 

 generally considered the most productive of the large-fruited red currants. The berries, 

 as the color plate shows, are beautiful bright red, of largest size, which, however, is not 

 always uniform. The fruits are juicy and of excellent quality, from which the large seeds 

 detract a little. In many localities the plants do not sucker freely, so that the bushes 

 sometimes have too few stalks. There is, also, a tendency in the canes to "go blind," 

 that is, to lack the terminal shoot. Harvesting is made a little difficult by the short-stemmed 

 bunches, the berries of which are so close to the wood that the crop is hard to pick. The 

 plants are so vigorous and so luxuriant in foliage that they might well be planted as orna- 

 mentals. This variety seems to have originated in Italy and was introduced into France 

 about 1840, and because of the extraordinary size of the fruit was named Cherry. It was 

 introduced into Flushing, New York, by Dr. William W. Valk in 1846. Cherry was 

 added to the recommended fruit list of the American Pomological Society in 1862. 



Plants meditim to large, vigorous, upright when young becoming more spreading 

 with age, dense, usually productive, healthy; young shoots few, very stocky, with a ten- 

 dency to imperfect buds at or near the ends of the shoots especially on bearing plants; 

 leaf -buds rather small, short, pointed, lean, appressed, glabrous; leaves deeply cordate at 

 the base, with obtuse lobes, medium in thickness and color, dull, rugose, with crenate 

 margins; petiole medium in length and thickness, pubescent, greenish. Flowers early, 

 in medium to long, drooping, rather few-flowered racemes; calyx- tube green mingled with 

 red, saucer-shaped, glabrous; calyx-lobes overlapping, pale green with slight red; ring well 

 developed, fleshy, distinctly brownish. Fruit early; clusters small, short, loose, with 10-13 



