158 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



LITHAUER 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 328. 1888. 2. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 17:9. 1892. 3. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 

 245. 1894. 4. Del. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:128. 1900. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Sp. Rpt. 33. 1904-05. 6. Am- 

 Pom. Soc. Cat. 27. 1909. 



It is barely possible that Lithauer, if the trees can be obtained, may 

 have some value in the coldest and bleakest parts of New York where 

 less hardy sorts cannot be grown. The variety is too poor in quality to 

 be worth planting where the better but less hardy cherries will grow. 

 We greatly doubt whether it is worthy a place in the recommended list 

 of fruits of the American Pomological Society. It is included here only 

 because of the prominence given it by a place in the fruit list named. 



This is one of the varieties imported from Russia by Professor J. L. 

 Budd of Iowa, who reported that it was much grown in southwest Russia 

 for drying and in making cherry wine. As tested in various parts of this 

 country Lithauer has proved of little value except in the extreme north. 

 The American Pomological Society, in 1909, listed this sort in its catalog 

 of recommended fruits for northern fruit regions. The following 

 description is compiled: 



Tree large, vigorous, tall, weeping, hardy. 



Fniit matures from the middle to the last of July; small, roundish, slightly oblate; 

 stem long, averaging one and one-half inches, slender; color dark purplish-red becoming 

 almost black at maturity; skin thick, tough; flesh dark red, with reddish juice, firm, meaty, 

 quite acid or bitter even when fully ripe; poor in quality; stone variable in size, roundish. 



LOUIS PHILIPPE 



Prunus avium. X Prunus cerasus 



I. Elliott Fr. Book 218. 1854. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 74. 1862. 3. Horticulturist 22:289, 290 

 fig. 1867. 4. Thomas Guide Prat. 26, 195. 1876. 5. Cult. & Count. Gent. 42:378. 1877. 6. Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat. 27. 1909. 



Here again we have a very evident hybrid between some Sweet Cherry 

 and a Sour Cherry of the Morello type in which Morello characters are 

 most prominent. If the description and color-plates of this variety and 

 Olivet be compared it will be found that the two cherries are nearly identi- 

 cal. They differ only in season of ripening and in minor tree-characters 

 which may be best summarized by the statement that this cherry has in 

 the tree more of the aspect of a Morello than has Olivet. It may be sus- 

 pected that one or the other of the two varieties on otir grounds is mis- 



