98 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



obovate, thick; upper surface glossy, dark green; lower surface light green, slightly pubes- 

 cent, distinctly ribbed by the larger veins; apex taper-pointed, base acute; margin with 

 small, black glands, coarsely and doubly serrate; petiole one and one-quarter inches long, 

 thick, lightly tinged with red, grooved, with one or two small, globose, reddish-orange 

 glands. 



Buds rather long, pointed, free, arranged often in elongated clusters at the ends of 

 long spurs; leaf -scars very prominent; season of bloom mediiun, averaging five days in 

 length; flowers white, one and tliree-sixteenths inches across; borne in dense clusters at 

 the ends of long spurs or spur-like branches, well distributed, varying from one to three; 

 pedicels one-half inch long, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube reddish, campanulate, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes tinged red, long, narrow, somewhat acuminate, glabrous within and without, 

 reflexed; petals roundish-oval, entire, nearly sessile, with a broad, shallow notch at the 

 apex; filaments one-quarter inch long; pistU glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit late ; three-fourths inch long, seven-eighths inch thick, roundish-oblate, slightly 

 compressed; cavity of medium depth, wide, regiilar; suture a line; apex roundish, slightly 

 depressed; color dark red; dots numerous, small, light russet, conspicuous; stem slender, 

 one and one-half inches long, adhering to the fruit; skin tough; flesh yellowish- white, with 

 colorless juice, slightly stringy, tender and soft, sprightly subacid; of very good quality; 

 stone free, about three-eighths inch in diameter, roundish, turgid, slightly pointed, with 

 smooth surfaces; ridged along the ventral suture. 



ARCH DUKE 



Prunus avium X Prunus ccrasus 



I. Parkinson Par. Ter. 571. 1629. 2. Rea Flora 20$. 1676. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:1^5. 1832. 

 4. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 189, 190. 1845. 5. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Card. 97, 98. 1846. 6. Mag. 

 Hort. 13:398 fig. 1847. 7. Elliott Fr. Book 203. 1854. 8. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 135. 1867. 9. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat. 12. 1871. lo. Hogg Fruit Man. 278, 279. 1884. 



Griotte de Portugal, u. Duhamel Trail. Arb. Fr. 1:190, 191, PI. XIII. 1768. 12. Leroy Did. 

 Pom. 5:297, 298 fig. 1877. 



Portugiesischer Griotlier Weichselbaum. 13. Kraft Pom. Aust. i:6. Tab. 16 fig. I. 1792. 



Herzogskirsche. 14. Christ Handb. 670. 1797. 15. Christ Worlerb. 282. 1802. 16. Truchsess- 

 Heim Kirschensort. 371-376. 1819. 



Portugiesische Griotte. 17. Christ Handb. 674. 1797. 



Cerise Royale de Hollande. 18. Ann. Pom. Beige. 1:81, PI. 1853. 



Cerise de Portugal. 19. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:148 fig. 37, i 49, 150. 1866. 



Parkinson, nearly three hundred years ago, thought the Arch Dtike 

 "one of the fairest and best of cherries." It is now, however, quite sur- 

 passed by several others of the Dukes. The concensus of opinion of those 

 who have known the true fruit of this name is that either May Duke or 

 Late Duke is better. We give it prominence only because of its worthy 

 past and that it may be better distinguished from May Dtike with which 

 it is often confused. As compared with the last-named variety it is two 

 weeks later; the tree is more vigorous but not as productive ; and the branches 



