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inch from the base ; skin thin, somewhat firm, semi-transparent showing the netted textvtre 

 of the pulp beneath; flesh pale amber, with abundant colorless juice, tender, melting, sweet, 

 pleasant flavor; very good in quality; stone mediimi to small, roimdish, pointed at the 

 apex ; dorsal suture indistinct ; surfaces nearly smooth. 



CLEVELAND 



Prunus avium 



I. Horticulturist 2:60 fig. 1847-48. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 191 fig., 192. 1854. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 

 74. 1862. 4. Mortillet ie Cemier 2:131. 1866. 



Knorpelkirsche von Cleveland. 5. III. Handb. 45 fig., 46. 1867. 



Cleveland is a Bigarreau which falls so far short of its near kin, as it 

 grows in New York at least, as not to be worth planting except as an early 

 cherry of its type — earliness being its one saving asset. The cherries closely 

 resemble Rockport in size, color, shape and flavor, are in no way better 

 than that somewhat mediocre sort and are even more subject to brown-rot. 

 It ripens with Black Tartarian and can never compete in orchard or market 

 with that sort. Possibly Cleveland has too much merit to be wholly 

 neglected yet it certainly is not worth planting in New York unless in a 

 locality where it does exceptionally well and when an early cherry of its 

 kind is wanted. 



Cleveland is said by its introducer, Professor J. P. Kirtland, to be a 

 seedling from Yellow Spanish. Its close similarity to Rockport suggests 

 that it may have come from a pit of that variety. It was brought out in 

 1842 but was not adopted by the American Pomological Society for its 

 fruit list until 1862. Despite rapidly passing popularity it is still on this 

 hst. 



Tree of medium size and vigor, upright-spreading, open, very productive; trunk of 

 medium diameter and smoothness; branches smooth, reddish-brown partly overspread 

 with ash-gray, with many small lenticels; branchlets slender, brown partly overspread 

 with ash-gray, smooth, with ntunerous small, inconspicuous lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, five inches long, two and one-half inches wide, folded upward, 

 obovate to long-elliptical, thin; upper surface meditmi green, slightly rugose; lower surface 

 light green, lightly pubescent ; apex acute, base abrupt ; margin coarsely and doubly serrate, 

 glandular; petiole often two inches long, reddish, rather slender, hairy, grooved, glandless 

 or with from one to four reniform, reddish glands, usually on the stalk. 



Buds small, short, pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds or in clusters 

 of variable size on rather short spurs; leaf -scars prominent; flowers white, one and one- 

 fourth inches across; borne in scattered clusters, usually in twos; pedicels three-fotirths 

 inch long, glabrous, greenish ; calyx-tube green, tinged with red, light green within, broadly 

 campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes tinged with red, broad, acute, glabrous within and 



