l62 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



lowing spring that the wood had been stolen. About five years later M. 

 Riviere, also a nurseryman at OuUins, placed upon the market at Lyons 

 a very early cherry which he called Bigarreau Anglaise but which was recog- 

 nized as the same as the one found by Jaboulay. Thus have come the 

 several names given in the synonyms. Lyons has never been much grown 

 in this country. Lewis B. Eaton of Buffalo, New York, in importing 

 cherry trees from France in 1841 and 1842, found among them one without 

 a label which turned out to be Bigarreau de Lyon, later the Lyons. Trees 

 of this variety were received for testing at this Station from the United 

 States Department of Agricidture under the name Hative de Lyons. 

 These, as grown here, have proved identical in both tree and fruit charac- 

 ters with the many descriptions of Bigarreau Jaboulay, or Bigarreau de 

 Lyon. 



Tree vigorous, a rapid grower, upright-spreading; branches straggUng, reddish-brown; 

 branchlets thick, long, with long intemodes, grayish-brown, with numerous rather large, 

 conspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves nvtmerous, variable in size, averaging five and one-half inches long, two and 

 one-half inches wide, folded upward, long-elliptical to obovate, thin; upper surface dark 

 green, smooth; lower surface light green, with few hairs; apex distinctly elongated, base 

 abrupt; margin coarsely serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole often two inches long, 

 thickish, pubescent on the upper surface, glandless or with from one to six large, reniform, 

 reddish glands usually on the stalk. 



Buds large, long, conical, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and in small, scattering 

 clusters; leaf -scars obscure; season of bloom intermediate; flowers large, often one and 

 one-half inches across, white; borne in dense clusters, in twos and threes; pedicels one 

 inch long, glabrous, green with a trace of red; calyx-tube distinctly reddish, somewhat 

 obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes strongly tinged with red, broad, acute, glabrous within 

 and without, reflexed; petals obovate, entire, tapering to distinct but short claws; apex 

 entire or with a shallow, wide notch; filaments five-sixteenths of an inch long; pistil 

 glabrous, equal to or longer than the stamens. 



Fruit matures early; one inch in diameter, cordate, compressed; cavity flaring; suture 

 shallow, or a mere line, often extending around the fruit; apex roundish or pointed; color 

 very dark red; dots numerous, small, russet; stem thick, one and one-half inches long; 

 skin thin, rather tender, separating from the pulp; flesh reddish, with dark colored juice, 

 meaty, sprightly, sweet; of very good quality; stone semi-clinging, large, ovate, plump, 

 with smooth surfaces; ridged along the ventral suture. 



