THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK I49 



Society, in 1852, mentioned this sort as deserving of further trial and, in 

 1854, Hsted it among the varieties of promising fruits. ElUott, in his 

 Fruit Book, noted this cherry under the name Kirtland's Mary, in honor 

 of Professor Kirtland's daughter, and classed it as a variety worthy of 

 general cultivation. Hogg, in 1866, dropped the name Kirtland and listed 

 it as Mary, while in the American Pomological Society's Special Report 

 for 1905 it is called Kirtland. According to the rules of pomological 

 nomenclature, Hogg was correct in holding the name Mary but, since 

 there is another Mary and no worthy sort bearing the name of so eminent 

 a horticulturist as Professor Kirtland, this Station follows the American 

 Pomological Society in the use of Kirtland. 



Tree small, rather weak, upright-spreading, open-topped, productive; trunk and 

 branches slender, smooth; branches reddish-brown partly overspread with ash-gray, 

 with numerous lenticels; branclilets thick, brown almost entirely overspread with ash- 

 gray, smooth except for the longitudinal, conspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves five inches long, two and one-fourth inches wide, folded upward, elliptical 

 to obovate, thin; upper surface medium green, somewhat glossy, smooth; lower surface 

 light green, thinly pubescent; apex acute, base abrupt; margin doubly serrate, with small, 

 dark glands; petiole one and three-fourths inches long, slender, tinged with red, lightly 

 pubescent along the upper side, with two or three reniform, reddish glands on the stalk. 



Buds pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds or on numerous, very 

 short spurs in clusters variable in size; leaf-scars prominent; blooming in mid-season; 

 flowers white, one and one-fourth inches across; borne in dense clusters; pedicels one inch 

 long, pubescent, reddish-green; calyx-tube tinged with red, light green within, campanu- 

 late, glabrous; calyx-lobes reddish, obtuse, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals 

 rovmdish-oval, entire, with short, broad claws and a notched apex ; filaments in four series, 

 the longest one-half inch; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, cordate, com- 

 pressed ; cavity wide, flaring ; suture a more or less distinct line ; apex roundish or pointed, 

 with a small depression at the center; color amber overspread with bright red; dots 

 numerous, small, grayish, conspicuous; stem one and three-fourths inches long, adhering 

 to the fruit; skin tough; flesh whitish, with colorless juice, tender, meaty, with a pleasant 

 and refreshing flavor; very good to best in quality; stone free, small, roundish-ovate, with 

 smooth surfaces; ridged along the ventral suture. 



KNIGHT 



Prunus avium 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 26. 1909. 



Knight's Early Black. 2. Land. Hon. Soc. Cat. 52. 1831. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:120. 1832. 

 4. Proc. Nat. Con. Fr.Gr. 52. 1848. 5. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 3:19. 1858. 6. MortiUet Le Cemter 

 2:83. 1866. 7. Mas Pom. Gen. 11:85, 86, fig. 43. 1882. 



Knights Friihe Herzkirsche. 8. III. Handb. 3 fig., 4. 1867. 



