66 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



In the several states named, the cherry industry is further localized. 

 Thus, in the 6i counties in New York, the cherry is grown largely in but 

 12, the number of trees in each of these being: Columbia 78,526, Niagara 

 61,786, Monroe 49,831, Ontario 36,394- Wayne 35.385- Erie 29,483, Onon- 

 daga 25,932, Seneca 27,063, Chautauqua 24,483, Steuben 15,412, Orleans 

 14,682 and Cayuga 14,319. If the figures just given, the total number 

 being 413,296, are compared with the number of trees in the State, 674,000, 

 it will be seen that the industry is quite localized, two-thirds of the cherries 

 being grown in 12 of the 61 counties, though the fact is brought out in the 

 census that cherries are grown on 59,408 farms in New York, showing 

 that this fruit is much grown for home use. Further figures of interest 

 as regards New York are that the cherry crop in 1909 amounted to 271,597 

 bushels which sold for $544,508. The plantings in the State cover in 

 the neighborhood of 9,500 acres. 



A canvass of the leading cherry -growers and nurserymen in the United 

 States shows that, in all parts of the country excepting California, Oregon 

 and Washington, Sour Cherries are much more commonly grown than 

 Sweet Cherries. In New York at least 90 per cent of the cherry trees are of 

 sour varieties and this proportion will hold for the region east of the Rockies. 

 The leading commercial varieties of Sour Cherries, in order named, are 

 Montmorency, Early Richmond and English Morello. No other variety 

 is nearly as commonly grown as is even the least well known of these three. 

 No one of the Diike cherries is mentioned as of commercial importance, 

 but May Duke, Late Duke and Reine Hortense are frequently grown in 

 home plantations. 



Growers of Sweet Cherries are not nearly as closely in accord as to 

 the best varieties as are those who grow sour sorts. The most popular 

 Sweet Cherries in the East seem to be Windsor, Black Tartarian, Napoleon 

 and Wood with a very insistent statement of the few who have tried it 

 that Schmidt is better than any of these for the market. On the Pacific 

 Coast honors go to Napoleon, which the Westerners continue to call Royal 

 Ann despite the fact that it has been cultivated for three centuries and 

 had been called Napoleon for nearly a half-centiu^y before Lewelling took 

 it to Oregon in 1847. Other popular sorts on the Pacific seaboard are 

 Bing, Lambert and Republican — all western productions. 



Rather more important than the information obtained from growers 

 of cherry trees as to varieties was that as to the stocks on which cherries 



