138 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



in 1855. Empress Eugenie soon became quite generally disseminated 

 throughout Europe and was considered nearly as good as May Duke, with 

 which it has occasionally been confused. It must have been brought to 

 America towards the beginning of the last quarter of the Nineteenth Cen- 

 tury and here it gradually became widely distributed until today it is 

 found in all the leading cherry plantations and is propagated by a large 

 number of nurserymen throughout the United States. The American 

 Pomological Society added this cherry to its fruit catalog list in 1877 under 

 the name Empress Eugenie. In 1883 this name was shortened to Eugenie 

 under which term it has since appeared in the Society's catalog. In The 

 Cherries of New York we have not adopted the shortened name as, by such 

 a change, all trace is lost of the person after whom the cherry was christened. 



Tree small, not very vigorous, upright, becoming round-topped, very productive; 

 trunk slender, roughish; branches slender, much roughened, reddish-brown partly covered 

 with ash-gray, with numerous small lenticels; branchlets with short intemodes, brown 

 slightly covered with ash-gray, smooth except for the nimierous small, conspicuous, much- 

 raised lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, three and one-half inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, 

 folded upward, obovate, thick; upper surface dark green, slightly rugose; lower surface 

 light green, thinly pubescent ; apex abruptly pointed, base variable in shape ; margin doubly 

 serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole three-fourths of an inch long, tinged with red, 

 with a few hairs along the upper surface, glandless or with one or two small, globose, 

 greenish-yellow or reddish glands, usually at the base of the blade. 



Buds obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and on long or short spurs, 

 in clusters variable in size; leaf -scars obscure; blooming in mid-season; flowers one and 

 one-fourth inches across, white; borne in very dense clusters, in threes and fours; pedicels 

 one inch long, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube with a faint tinge of red, obconic, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes with a trace of red, acute, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals roundish, 

 entire, with short but distinct claws; apex nearly entire; filaments one-fourth inch long; 

 pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, roundish-conic 

 to oblate-conic, compressed; cavity narrow; suture very shallow, indistinct; apex flattened 

 or depressed; color dark red; dots numerous, small, dark russet, obscure; stem one and 

 one-fourth inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin tough, separating from the pulp; flesh 

 pale red, with pinkish juice, tender, meaty, sprightly, pleasant flavored, tart ; of good 

 quality; stone semi-clinging, small, ovate, flattened, somewhat oblique, with smooth 



surfaces. 



ENGLISH MORELLO 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Parkinson Par. Ter. 572. 1629. 2. Langley Pomona 85. 1729. 3. Christ Handb. 677. 1797. 

 4. Land. Horl. Soc. Cat. 54. 1831. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 197, 198 fig. 1845. 6. Am. Pom. Sac. 

 Cat. 74. 1862. 7. Hogg Fruit Man. 306, 307. 1884. 8. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 27. 1909. 



