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Hoppock Yellow. P. avium, i. Mich. Sta. Bid. 12:164. 1886. 



This variety originated in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from seed sown by Cornelius 

 Hoppock. Fruit of medium size, cordate, sweet; ver>' productive. 



Hoskins. P. avium, i. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 262. 1S92. 2, Ibid. 292, PI. VI. 1893. 

 3. Am. Pmi. Soc. Rpt. 150. 1895. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 24. 1899. 



Hoskins originated with C. E. Hoskins,* Newberg, Oregon, about 18S0, as a seedling 

 of Napoleon. Tree ^'igo^ous, upright, somewhat spreading; fruit large, roundish-cordate 

 suture a line; stem short, set in a rovmdish cavity ; color dull purplish-red; flesh purple, 

 fibrous, firm, sprightly, sweet; quality good; ripens in mid -season. 



Hovey. P. avium, i. Hovey Fr. Am. 2:25, 26, PI. 1851. 2. Mag. Hort. 19:405, 406 

 fig. 27. 1853. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 74. 1862. 



Hovey originated with C. M. Hovey, Boston, Massachusetts, being selected from 

 a bed of seedHngs in 1839; first fniited in 1848. For a time it was considered a cherry 

 of considerable value but at present it is but little known. Tree very vigorous, upright, 

 spreading, productive; fruit large, obtuse-cordate; stem short, rather stout; skin rich 

 amber mottled with brilliant red; flesh pale amber, rather firm but tender, sprightly 

 becoming sweet; very good in quality; stone slightly adherent to the pulp, small, oval. 

 Hoy. P. avium. 1. Chase Cat. 12. 1909. 2. Ibid. PI. 1910. 



A new cherry recently found in one of the suburbs of Philadelphia and introduced 

 in 1909 by the Chase Nursery Company, Geneva, New York, as a very valuable Sweet 

 Cherry. As grown at the Geneva Station it is smaller and no better than Napoleon. 

 Tree vigorous, hardy, healthy, unproductive on the Station grounds. Fruit large, roundish- 

 cordate, slightly flattened, with irregiilar siuiaces; cavity deep; sutiu-e a line; stem of 

 medium thickness and length, adhering to the fruit; skin rather thin, of medium toughness, 

 adhering to the pulp, amber covered with light red, sometimes spotted; flesh whitish, 

 juicy, stringy, tender, somewhat meaty, crisp, sprightly, sweet; quality good; stone cling- 

 ing, roundish, plump; ripens in mid-season. 



' Oregon has given to pomology two notable breeders of cherries, Seth Lewelling and C. E. Hoskins, 

 the subject of this sketch. Cyrus Edwin Hoskins was bom on a farm in Clinton County, Ohio, July 3, 

 1842, and there he grew to manhood. Almost at the first call for men to defend the Union in the Civil 

 War, Mr. Hoskins responded and joined the 13th Ohio regiment, serving until the close of the war. 

 Returning to Ohio, he gave attention to fruit culture, testing many varieties of several frmts and producing 

 some new grapes and berries. In 1877 Mr. Hoskins moved to Newberg, Yamhill County, Oregon, settling 

 on new land and thus becoming a pioneer in the Northwest. His first pomological venture in Oregon 

 was in growing prunes, his orchard of this fruit being one of the first, and he is credited with having built 

 one of the first evaporators for the curing of prunes in America. For some years he maintained his prune 

 ranch and evaporator, developing a product that gave him the highest reputation in prune markets and 

 made him one of the leading authorities on this fruit in the United States. Early in his orchard work 

 in Oregon Mr. Hoskins began to produce new varieties of cherries and soon offered for sale a number of 

 promising seedlings of which Vesta, Lake, Occident, Stryker and Hoskins were most worthy. Unfortu- 

 nately, ill health in the family compelled Mr. Hoskins to move from Yamhill County, to which place, after 

 having spent several years in Jackson Cotmty, Oregon, and in the Hawaiian Islands, he returned with the 

 expectation of taking up his work in breeding cherries and prunes, but his death, August 18, 1908, occurred 

 before his work had been again well begun. The Pacific Northwest owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Hoskins 

 for the spendid part he played in developing the fruit industry of that region and pomologists the country 

 over owe him much for his labors in breeding cherries. 



