120 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



Fruit matures the last of Jime, attached in twos or threes, with from two to eight 

 fruits per cluster; variable in size, roundish, flattened at the extremities; suture prominent; 

 color clear red becoming darker at maturity; skin tough, transparent; stem long, inserted 

 in a deep cavity; flesh nearly white, transparent, with abundant juice which is usually 

 uncolored but sometimes tinged red, very tender, sour, yet agreeable; quality fair; stone 

 small, roundish, compressed. 



COE 



Primus avium 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 1909. 



Coe's Tra?isparent. 2. Horticulturist 2:71, 72 fig. 1847-48. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 211. 1856. 

 4. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:87 fig., 88. 1866. 5. Cult. & Count. Gent. 36:326. 1871. 6. Thomas Guide 

 Prat. 15, 206. 1876. 



Guigne Coe. 7. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:319 fig., 320. 1877. 



Coe's Bttnte Transparent. 8. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 343. 1889. 



Even earlier and certainly better than Cleveland, which we have just 

 discussed, is Coe, long known as Coe's Transparent. This is the first of 

 the light-colored cherries to ripen and is a splendid fruit in quality and 

 appearance. The color-plate shows this variety very well — possibly too 

 well, since one of its defects is variability in color, the variant usually being 

 very light colored and not as attractive as the type. A second defect is 

 that the fruit runs rather small. The tree-characters are in the main very 

 good. The variety can be distinguished, as a rule, by the large, spreading 

 tree and to a lesser extent by its hardiness, vigor, healthfulness and fruit- 

 fulness. Coe is worthy of a place in every home plantation, in orchards 

 for local markets and in favored localities as an early cherry for the general 

 market. 



Curtis Coe of Middletown, Connecticut, grew this variety early in the 

 Nineteenth Century from a pit of what he supposed to be Ox Heart. The 

 American Pomological Society included Coe in its list of recommended 

 fruits in 1856. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open, very productive; trunk stocky, shaggy; 

 branches thick, smooth, dark reddish-brown overlaid with ash-gray, with many raised 

 lenticels; branchlets stout, short, brown nearly covered with gray, smooth, glabrous, with 

 numerous small, conspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, four and one-foiu-th inches long, two and one-fourth inches wide, 

 folded upward or flattened, long-elliptical to obovate, thin; upper surface medium green; 

 lower surface light green, thinly pubescent; apex acute, base abrupt; margin coarsely 

 serrate, with small, black glands; petiole one and three-fourths inches long, thick, tinged 

 with red, grooved, hairy, with from one to three large, reniform, greenish-yellow or reddish 

 glands on the stalk. 



