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serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole one inch long, somewhat slender, lightly tinged 

 with red, with a few hairs on the grooved upper surface and with from one to three small, 

 globose, greenish-yellow glands at the base of the blade. 



Buds small, short, obtuse, very free, arranged singly as lateral buds and in clusters 

 on few, short spiirs; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, 

 one and one-fourth inches across; borne in dense clusters usually in tlirees; pedicels over 

 one-half inch long, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube with a tinge of red, obconic, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes faintly tinged with red, acute, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; 

 petals somewhat obovate, entire, with an entire apex; filaments one-fourth inch long; 

 pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures early; three-foiuths inch in diameter, roundish-oblate, compressed; 

 cavity regular, somewhat abrupt; suture indistinct; apex rovmdish or flattened; color 

 bright red; dots numerous, small, light russet, rather conspicuous; stem one inch long, 

 adhering to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating from the pulp; flesh pale yellow, with 

 colorless juice, tender and melting, sprightly; fair to good in quality; stone free, ovate, 

 somewhat flattened, pointed, with smooth surfaces, faintly tinged with red; ridged along 

 the ventral suture. 



KIRTLAND 

 Prunus avium 



1. Am. Pom. Soc. Sp. Rpt. 22. 1904-05. 



Kirtland's Mary. 2. Horticulturist 2:123, 124 fig. 21. 1847-48. 3. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 365. 

 1849. 4. Cole Am. Fr. Book 231. 1849. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 39. 1852. 6. Itnd. 235. 1854. 

 7. Elliott Fr. Book 198 fig. 1854. 8. Hooper W. Fr. Book 262, 263. 1857. 9. Mas Le Verger 8:55, 

 56, fig. 26. 1866-73. 



Mary. 10. Hogg Fruit Man. 69, 86, 87. 1866. 



In the collection of cherries at this Station, Kirtland stands among 

 the best of the Bigarreaus in quality of fruit — in fact is hardly surpassed 

 in richness and delicacy of flavor. The fruit, too, as may be seen from 

 the color-plate, is handsome, the cherries resembling the well-known 

 Napoleon but being a little darker in color. The flesh is firm and meaty 

 and stands handling well and also resists the brown-rot as well as any 

 other cherry. With these splendid qualities of fruit, Kirtland would long 

 ago have been one of the standard commercial cherries were its tree-char- 

 acters better. Wherever tried, the complaint comes that the trees lack 

 vigor and can be grown successftolly only on choice cherry soils and under 

 the best of care. With these fatilts the variety can be recommended only for 

 home orchards and for local markets where there is demand for a very early 

 Bigarreau, since this variety ripens before most other cherries of its kind. 



Kirtland was grown in 1842 by Professor J. P. Kirtland of Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, and ranks foremost in quality and appearance of all the seedlings 

 raised by this well-known cherry-breeder. The American Pomological 



