THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK I25 



schedule of fruits in 1848 as Downer's Late. It now appears as Downer 

 with Downer's Late Red as a synonym in accordance with the rules of 

 the Society. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense-topped, productive; trunk thick, with 

 shaggy bark; branches thick, roughened, dark brown overspread with dark gray, with 

 numerous large lenticels; branchlets slender, long, brown partly covered with ash-gray, 

 smooth, with inconspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, three inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded upward, 

 obovate, rather stiff; upper surface dark green; lower surface light green, hairy along 

 the veins; apex acute, base abrupt; margin doubly serrate, glandular; petiole one inch 

 long, thick, dark red, grooved, glandless or with from one to three large, globose or reni- 

 form glands on the stalk. 



Buds small, except the terminals which are large, pointed, plump, free, arranged singly 

 as lateral buds, or in small clusters on short spurs; leaf -scars prominent; flowers white, 

 one and one-fourth inches across; borne in thin clusters in ones and in twos; pedicels 

 variable in length often one inch long, glabrous; calyx-tube faintly tinged with red, cam- 

 panula te, glabrous; calyx-lobes tinged with red, acuminate, glabrous within and without, 

 reflexed; petals roimdish, entire, somewhat sessile, with a shallow notch at the apex; pistil 

 glabrous, nearly equal to the stamens in length, often defective. 



Fruit matures among the latest; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, roundish- 

 cordate, slightly compressed; cavity very shallow, flaring; suture obscure; apex variable 

 in shape usually somewhat pointed; color Ught to dark red frequently showing an amber 

 backgroimd on the shaded side; dots numerous, small, russet, inconspicuous; stem one 

 and three-fourths inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin tough, separating from the pulp; 

 flesh pale yellow, with colorless juice, somewhat stringy, tender, with soft flesh, mild and 

 pleasant, sweet when fully ripe; good to very good in quality; stone large, free, ovate, 

 flattened, with smooth surfaces; somewhat ridged along the ventral suture. 



DYEHOUSE 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Horticulturist 25x176, 177. 1870. 2. Downing /'r. Trees Am. ^rd App. 161. 1881. 3. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat. 17. 1897. 



Dyehouse is conspicuous among cherries for its earliness and for the 

 beauty of its fruit. Early Richmond is the standard early cherry yet 

 Dyehouse is a week earlier, just as attractive in appearance and equally 

 well flavored. It is near of kin to Early Richmond but the two may be 

 distinguished by the difference in time of ripening and by its brighter, 

 clearer color, greater opaqueness, more highly colored juice and slightly 

 smaller size. Possibly this cherry would supersede the better-known Early 

 Richmond were it not for the defect in size and for the further faults of 

 being less productive and more capricious to environment, as it fails to 



