THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 1 23 



France, Double Glass has long been cultivated under the name Amarelle 

 Double de Verre. The variety was brought to America from Russia in 

 1883 by Professor J. L. Budd. While grown for a time in the Central 

 States it was never highly regarded and has now nearly passed from 

 cultivation. The following description is a compilation : 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading becoming divergent with age, usually hardy, 

 rather vuiproductive; branchlets thick, reddish-brown; leaves healthy, small to medium, 

 ovate, with serrated margins; buds large, prominent. 



Fruit matures the latter part of June; usually large, roundish-oblate, with a very 

 deep suture; color Ught red becoming much darker at maturity; stem long, thick; skin 

 thin, tough, translucent; flesh yellowish, with abundant uncolored juice, firm, tender, 

 sprightly; good in quality; stone medium in size, roundish. 



DOUBLE NATTE 



Priimts cerasus 



I. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 538, 539. 1819. 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 292. 1884. 3. Mich. Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt. 327. 1888. 4. la. Sta. Bid. 73:67. 1903. 



Cerise van der Nat. 5. Knoop Fructologie 2:41. 1771. 



Kirsche von der Natte. 6. Kninitz Enc. 69, 70. 1790. 7. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 539-542. 

 1819. 8. ///. Handb. 509 fig., 510. 1861. 



Budd's importations of Russian cherries, to which reference is so often 

 made in this text, brought forth almost universal praise for any and all 

 of the foreign sorts. Ctiltural tests soon demonstrated, however, that most 

 of the varieties were comparatively worthless; Double Natte is one of 

 these. It is a very mediocre cherry of the Morello group in nowise equal 

 to English Morello except when earliness is a prime requisite, this sort 

 being one of the earliest of the Morellos. In flavor it is equal to English 

 Morello but is no better. At Geneva the trees are seldom very fruitful. 

 From the eulogistic reports of its behavior in the Middle West it would 

 seem that it was better adapted to Iowa, for instance, than for New York. 



This variety was first mentioned by Knoop, the Dutch pomologist, 

 in 1 77 1 — origin not given. Some years ago Professor J. L. Budd also 

 imported from Russia a cherry under the name Riga No. i8. This cherry 

 has been grown as a separate variety under the name Riga but the 

 descriptions of it are all identical with those of Double Natte and there 

 can be no doubt but that they are one and the same. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open- topped, somewhat vasiform, productive; 

 trunk and branches smooth; branches brown nearly covered with ash-gray, with a few 

 large lenticels; branchlets long, with short intemodes, brown partly covered with ash-gray, 

 smooth, with a few very large, raised lenticels. 



