Il6 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



oblate fruits of Centennial, by a more mottled color and by the pits which 

 are longer and more pointed in the newer variety. Centennial is recom- 

 mended for home orchards and experimentally for commercial plantations. 

 Centennial is a seedling of Napoleon grown by Henry Chapman, 

 Napa, California. It came in fruit in 1876 but was not introduced until 

 1885, Leonard Coates of Napa, California, being the introducer. Despite 

 its many merits, Centennial did not win a place on the fruit list of the 

 American Pomological Society until 1899. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, productive; trunk thick, roughish; 

 branches stout, smooth, brownish, with many large lenticels; branchlets thick, with inter- 

 nodes of medium length. 



Leaves numerous, large, flattened, long-oval to obovate, thick; upper surface dark 

 green, rugose; lower surface pale green, thinly pubescent; apex taper-pointed; margin 

 coarsely serrate, with small and inconspicuous glands; petiole one and one-fourth inches 

 long, pubescent, tinged with red, with from two to four large, reniform, greenish-red, 

 flattened glands, usually on the stalk. 



Buds large, long, pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds or in small 

 clusters on short spurs; leaf -scars prominent; blooming season about the middle of May; 

 flowers one and one-fourth inches across, usually arranged in twos and threes; pedicels 

 variable in length averaging one and one-eighth inches, slender, glabrous, greenish; cal>-x- 

 tube faintly tinged with red, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes long, acute, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, reflexed; petals oval, entire, tapering to short, narrow claws, with a slightly crenate 

 apex; anthers greenish; filaments one-eighth inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil 

 glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures the last week in June, length of season rather short; very large, short- 

 cordate, compressed; cavity deep, wide; suture distinct, broad, shallow; apex roundish or 

 slightly depressed ; color amber-yellow, speckled and overlaid with crimson ; dots whitish, 

 inconspicuous; stem thick, one and one-fourth inches long, adherent to the pulp; skin thin, 

 tender, cracks badly, adherent to the pulp; flesh whitish, with colorless juice, meaty, 

 crackling, sprightly, sweet; of very good quality; stone semi-clinging, three-eighths inch 

 in length, eleven-thirty-seconds inch in width, ovate, plump, oblique, with smooth surfaces; 

 ridged on the ventral suture. 



CHOISY 



Prunus avium X Primus cerasus 



Cerisier a Fruit Ambre, a Fruit Blanc, i. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 1:185, '^6, 187, PI. XI. 1768. 



Schone von Choisy. 2. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 452-455. 1819. 3. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 333, 

 334, 376. 1889. 



Belle de Choisy. 4. Pom. Mag. 1:42, PI. 1828. 5. Prince Pom. Man. 2:137. 1832. 6. Cultivator 

 10:150 fig. 1843. 7. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 190 fig. 79. 1845. 8. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 2: No. 27, PI. 

 1846. 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 37, 38, 102. 1852. 10. Ann. Pom. Beige 1:63, fig. 2. 1853. 11. Elliott 

 Fr. Book 189. 1854. 12. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 74. 1862. 13. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:169, 17° fig- 45- 

 171,172. 1866. 14. MasLe Ferger8:ii3, 114, fig. 55. 1866-73. 15. Hogg FrMi7 Afon. 276, 280. 1884. 

 16. Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom. 80 fig., 81. 1904. 17. Cat. Cong. Pom. France 18. 1906. 



