142 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



George Glass has been widely heralded as a desirable variety in the 

 Middle West but in New York, where it has passed through a rather 

 lengthy probationary period, practically all who have tried it are ready to 

 declare it worthless. It is of the Amarelle group and cannot compete 

 with the mp,ny good varieties of its kinship, as the Early Richmond or 

 the several Montmorencies. Its season is between Early Richmond and 

 Montmorency. As compared with the last-named variety, the standard 

 Sour Cherry, the fruit of George Glass is smaller, sotirer, less attractive in 

 appearance and the trees are far less fruitful. Possibly the trees are more 

 hardy, this character commending it for the colder parts of the Mississippi 

 Valley. 



The origin of this variety is uncertain but it is supposed to have been 

 introduced into Iowa by immigrants from northeastern Germany. In 

 American collections it has often been confused with Brusseler Braune 

 and Bessarabian and by some is declared to be identical with the latter 

 sort. It is supposed to be a cross between a Duke and a Morello cherry. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, rather open, hardy, appears unproductive; 

 trunk thick; branches thick, roughened, with numerous conspicuous, raised lenticels; 

 leaves numerous, four inches long, two inches wide, obovate, thick, stiff, dark green; 

 petiole three-fourths of an inch long, tinged with red, with a few hairs along the upper 

 surface, with one or two small, globose, reddish-orange glands, usually at the base of the 

 blade; buds intermediate in size and length; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom inter- 

 mediate; flowers one and one-fourth inches across; borne in dense clusters. 



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

 compressed; cavity deep; color light red changing to dark red; stem one and one-eighth 

 inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin separating from the pulp; flesh yellowish-white, 

 with abtmdant colorless juice, string^', tender and melting, rather mild for a sour cherry; 

 good to very good in quality; stone free, roundish or slightly oblate, plump, blunt, with 

 smooth surfaces; ventral suture prominent. 



HEART-SHAPED WEICHSEL 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensorl. 573-577- i8i9- 2. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 3:60, 61. 1858. 

 3. Mick. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 328. 1888. 4. Wash. Sla. Bui. 92:17. 1910. 



Herzformige Sauerkirsche. 5. Christ Worterb. 288. 1802. 



Heart-Shaped Griotte. 6. Prince Pom. Man. 2:149. 1832. 7. Mas Le Verger 8:103, I04. fig- 5°- 

 1866-73. 



This Sour Cherry, of the Morello group, is too poor in quality to 

 recommend it for any purpose. The fruit is scarcely edible until dead ripe 

 and even then is too puckering to eat out of hand with relish. The cherries 



