lOO THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



BALDWIN 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Kan. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 23:81. 1898. 2. Kan. Hort. Soc. Cherry, The, 15, 16, PI. 1900. 3. la. Sta. 

 Bui. 73:63. 1903. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 27. 1909. 



Baldwin is supposed to have grown from a sprout of a stock on which 

 Early Richmond had been budded on the farm of S. J. Baldwin, Seneca, 

 Kansas. The Early Richmond bud was in some manner broken off and 

 the sprout, springing from the stock, was allowed to grow and first fruited 

 in 1 89 1. On the grounds of this Station Baldwin trees which came fairly 

 direct from the originator tiomed out to be Olivet. The published 

 descriptions that can be found are so scant and fragmentary that we cannot 

 make out whether the variety is really distinct or, as in the case of our 

 trees, is Olivet renamed. The variety has been rather widely disseminated 

 in the Middle West but has not shown much merit either for home or for 

 commercial orchards in the rather lengthy probationary period it has had 

 in the East. The American Pomological Society added Baldwin to its 

 fruit list in 1909. The description we give is a compilation. 



Tree vigorous, upright, round-topped; leaves large, broad; flowers white, changing 

 to pink. 



Fruit ripens early; usually borne in pairs; large, round; stem of medium length, rather 

 thick; color very dark red, yet almost transparent; flavor slightly acid, yet considered 

 one of the sweetest and richest of the Morello class. 



BAUMANN MAY 



Prunus avium 



1. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 168 fig. 60. 1845. 2. .4m. Pom. Soc. Cat. 74. 1862. 3. Hogg Fruit 

 Man. 279. 1884. 



Fruhe Maiherzkirsche. 4. Kraft Pom. Ausl. 1:1, Tab. I. 1792. 5. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 

 140, 141, 142. 1819. 6. lit. Handb. 49 fig., 50. i860. 7. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 348, 349. 1889. 



Susse Maiherzkirsche. 8. Christ Handb. 662. 1797. 



May Bigarreau. 9. Kenrick Am. Orch. 234. 1841. 10. Mag. Hort. 7:288. 1841. 11. Cultivator 

 N. S. 4:280 fig. I. 1847. 12. Hovey Fr. Am. 1:55, 56, Pi. 1851. 



Guigne Precoce de Mai. 13. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:54 fig. 2, 55, 56. 1866. 14. Mas Pom. Gen. 

 11:51, 52, fig. 26. 1882. 



Bigarreau Baumann. 15. Leroy Did. Pom. 5:176 fig., 177. 1877. 



Guigne de Mai. 16. Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom. 102 fig., 103. 1904. 



Baumann May is an early Sweet Cherry which at one time held high 

 place among its kind but a century of culttire proved that it had little 

 value except for extreme earliness and it is now but sparingly or not at 

 all grown either in America or abroad. If the variety could be obtained it 



