192 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



SUDA 



Prunus cerasus 

 I. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 27. 1909. 



Suda Hardy. 2. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpl. 21. 1892-93. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 25. 1899. 4. Stark 

 Brothers Cat. 1899. 5. la. Sta. Bid. 73:84 fig., 85. 1903. 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Sp. Rpt. 36. 1904-05. 



Suda has been widely advertised as an improved English Morello but, 

 while there seem to be some slight differences between the two, the new 

 variety is not an improvement on the old so far as can be discovered at 

 this Station. The trees of Suda in general aspect are more upright and 

 the stems of the cherries longer and more slender than those of English 

 Morello, being but an inch in length in the one variety and an inch and three- 

 fourths in the other. The trees on the grounds of this Station are not as 

 productive as those of English Morello. The cherries, if anything, are 

 not as high in quality as those of the older and probably the parent variety. 

 It is doubtful if there is a place for Suda in the cherry industry of New York. 



This cherry originated in the garden of a Captain Suda, Louisiana, 

 Missouri, about 1880. The American Pomological Society listed Suda in 

 its fruit catalog of 1899 as Suda Hardy but in 1909 shortened the name to 

 Suda, a change which has generally been accepted. 



Tree vigorous, rather unproductive; branches slender, with numerous small lenticels; 

 branchlets slender, long; leaves ntmierous, four inches long, two and one-fourth inches 

 wide, obovate to oval, dull, dark green; margin doubly serrate, with dark glands; petiole 

 one inch long, of medium thickness, tinged with dull red, glandless or with one or two 

 reniform, yellowish-brown glands usually at the base of the blade; buds small, short, obtuse, 

 arranged singly as lateral buds and on but very few, if any, spurs; season of bloom late; 

 flowers white, one inch across; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil shorter than the 

 stamens. 



Fruit matures very late ; three-fourths inch in diameter, roundish-cordate, slightly 

 compressed; cavity flaring; suture indistinct; color dark purplish-red; stem slender, one 

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

 dark red, with dark colored juice, tender, somewhat meaty, sprightly, astringent, very 

 sour; poor in quality; stone free or nearly so, ovate, slightly pointed, with smooth svufaces. 



TIMME 

 Prunus cerasus 

 I. la. Sla. Bui. 73:85, 86. 1903. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 27. 1909. 



Timme can hardly be distinguished from Early Richmond, differing 

 only in smaller fruits, and probably is a seed variation of that variety. 

 On the grounds of this Station the trees of Timme are even more productive 



