no THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



it is worth planting in small numbers where growers want a cherry of the 

 Montmorency type. 



This variety was found by a Doctor Bretonneau about 1844 in Bour- 

 gueil, Indre-et-Loire, France. It is known by the name of the finder as 

 well as that of the locality in which it originated and through having the 

 same place of origin is often confused with Cerise Rouge Pale. The United 

 States Department of Agriculture received this variety in 1905 from Fer- 

 dinand Jamin, Boxirg-la-Reine, Seine, France, and in turn forwarded it to 

 this Station where it has been fruiting for the past few seasons. Nursery- 

 men do not as yet offer it for sale and it is doubtful if it is known in more 

 than a few places in America. 



Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, vasiform, productive; branches slender, smooth, 

 reddish-brown partly covered with ash-gray, with numerous lenticels; branchlets slender, 

 long, brown, with some ash-gray, smooth, with numerous inconspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, four inches long, two inches wide, folded upward, obovate to ovate, 

 thick; upper surface dark green, smooth; lower surface Ught green, pubescent along the 

 veins; apex and base variable in shape; margin doubly crenate; petiole one inch long, 

 thick, with a dull tinge of red, pubescent, with none or with from one to three globose, 

 yellow or brownish glands on the base of the blade. 



Buds smaU, short, variable in shape, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds 

 and on short sptors in clusters variable in size; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom late; 

 flowers white, one and one-fourth inches across; borne in scattering, well-distributed 

 clusters, usually in threes; pedicels short, one-half inch long, glabrous, greenish; calyx- 

 tube faintly tinged with red, campantdate, glabrous ; calyx-lobes with a trace of red, broad, 

 serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals crinkled, roundish, entire, sessile, 

 with apex entire; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens 

 in length. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths inch long, one inch wide, nearly oblate, 

 somewhat compressed; cavity deep, wide, mediimi flaring, regular; sutiu-e indistinct; 

 apex roundish to flattened; color bright red; dots small, russet, inconspicuous; stem stout, 

 one and one-eighth inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin tender, free; flesh yellowish- 

 white with colorless juice, tender and melting, sprightly, sour; of good quality; stone free, 

 large, roundish-ovate, pointed, with smooth svirfaces, tinged with red, with a prominent 

 ventral suture. 



BRUSSELER BRAUNE 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Christ Handb. 676. 1797. 2. Christ Worterb. 288. 1802. 3. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 

 533-536. 1819. 4. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 3:63, 64. 1858. 5. Mathieu Norn. Pom. 333, 341- 

 1889. 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 24. 1899. 7. Del. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:124, 125, fig. 8. 1900. 



Briisselsche Bruyn. 8. Kninitz Enc. 75, 76. 1790. 



Zweite Grosser Herzkirschweichsel. g. Kraft Pom. Aust. 1:9, Tab. 22 fig. i. 1792. 



Ratafia. 10. Hogg Fruit Man. 309, 310. 1884. 



