THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK III 



From the standpoint of commercial cherry culture, Brusseler Braune 

 has little value. The trees are uncertain in bearing; the cherries are small, 

 sour, and astringent; and, worse than the faults named, the crop ripens 

 very unevenly. It is of the English Morello type but in New York, at 

 least, is far inferior to this well-known sort. Brusseler Braune has been 

 much advertised for cold climates but there are many better cherries that 

 stand cold nearly or quite as well and are better in both tree and frviit 

 characters and, in particular, that will not vex the souls of growers by ripen- 

 ing so unevenly. The variety has two marked peculiarities : the leaves on the 

 two-year-old wood are very small and the fruit-stems bear a small leaflet 

 at their base. These leaflets on the fruit-stem would have to be removed 

 in marketing the crop — another serious defect. 



No doubt Brusseler Braune originated in Holland but there is nothing 

 definite as to the time though Truchsess, a German, writes of having 

 received it in 1785 as Briisselsche Bruyn. The synonyms of this variety 

 are more or less confused with those of English Morello. This cherry was 

 brought to America in 1883 by the late J. L. Budd with several other 

 varieties. In the collection of trees sent out from the original importation, 

 of which this was one, or from trees budded from them, were Griotte du 

 Nord, Large Long Late, Shadow Amarelle, Lutovka, George Glass, Orel 

 No. 27, or Gibb, and Bessarabian. Unfortunately the varieties were badly 

 mixed and much confusion has resulted. It is not impossible that the 

 first three are synonyms but the Lutovka, George Glass, Bessarabian and 

 possibly the Gibb are distinct varieties. In 1895, this Station recommended 

 a new cherry for trial for home and market and distributed buds throughout 

 the state under the name Lutovka. Later it was found that an error had 

 been made regarding the trees sent us as Lutovka, they being the Brusse- 

 ler Braune. The American Pomological Society added Brusseler Braune 

 to its fruit catalog list in 1899 but dropped it in 1909. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright-spreading but with drooping branchlets, 

 dense, roimd-topped, improductive ; trunk and branches smooth, stout; branches brownish, 

 overspread with ash-gray, with numerous small lenticels; branchlets slender, with short 

 intemodes, nearly covered with ash-gray, smooth, glabrous, with small, lightly raised, 

 inconspicuous lenticels. 



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

 upward, obovate, thick, grooved along the midrib; upper surface very dark, dull green; 

 lower surface light green, pubescent; apex taper-pointed, base acute; margin finely and 

 doubly serrate; petiole one and one-eighth inches long, tinged with dull, dark red, grooved 

 along the upper surface, with from one to four small, globose, yellowish-green glands. 



