112 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



Buds pointed, plump, free, arranged as lateral buds and in clusters on scattering, 

 short spurs; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom late; flowers one inch across, white; 

 borne in scattering clusters in threes and fours; pedicels one and one-eighth inches long, 

 slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx- tube furrowed, tinted with red, obconic, glabrous; calyx- 

 lobes with a trace of red, acuminate, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals 

 oval to obovate, entire, nearly sessile, with a shallow, wide notch at the apex; filaments 

 one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures very late; nearly one inch in diameter, although variable in size, 

 roundish-cordate, slightly compressed; cavity of medium depth, narrow, abrupt; suture 

 very shallow, indistinct; apex roundish, with a small depression at the center; color light 

 red changing to dark red as the season advances; dots numerous, small, dark russet, 

 inconspicuous; stem two and one-fourth inches long, with small leaflets at the base, 

 strongly adherent to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separates readily from the pulp; flesh 

 dark red, with dark colored juice, tender and melting, somev/hat astringent, sour; of fair 

 quality; stone nearly free when fully mature, fifteen-thirty-seconds inch long, roundish- 

 oval, rather plump, blunt-pointed; surfaces smooth; ventral suture slightly enlarged near 

 the base. 



BUNTE AMARELLE 



Pruniis cerasus 



I. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 652-655. 1819. 2. la. Hort. Soc. Rpl. 330. 1885. 3. la. Sta. 

 Bui. 2:40. 1888. 4. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:272. 1903. 



So far Bunte Amarelle has found a place only in the trying cherry 

 climate of Iowa and neighboring States. It is not attractive enough in 

 appearance, good enough in quality, or certain and fruitful enough in bear- 

 ing to compete with other Amarelles, to which group this variety belongs. 

 Its saving grace is extreme hardiness of tree, though vigor and health help 

 make it somewhat desirable in cold, prairie regions of the Mid- West where 

 cherry growing is more or less precarious. There has been much uncer- 

 tainty as to the true variety and we have had to discard the trees on the 

 Station grounds and compile a description. 



This variety probably originated in Germany in the latter part of the 

 Eighteenth Century. Truchsess, a German, in 1819, called the cherry 

 Bunte Amarelle because of its variegated color before full maturity. The 

 variety was introduced from Poland to America sometime previous to 1885 

 and has usually gone under the name of Amarelle Bunte. From all accounts 

 Professor J. L. Budd of Ames, Iowa, the authority on these hardy cherries 

 during his time, had two different cherries under the name Amarelle Bunte; 

 for in his report at the Iowa Horticultural Society in 1885, he mentioned 

 a variety under that name as being a large, dark purple and nearly sweet 

 sort which could not have been the true Bunte Amarelle of Truchsess. 



