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than those of Early Richmond, one of the most fruitful of all cherries, 

 but the greater fruitfulness of the tree hardly offsets the smaller size of 

 the cherries. It is doubtful if this new strain can displace the older Early 

 Richmond, which is well established in the favor of cherry-growers 

 everywhere. 



This variety is supposed to have been brought to America from Ger- 

 many by a Mr. Timme of Omaha, Nebraska. It is of some local importance 

 in Iowa and Nebraska but as yet has not been widely distributed in Amer- 

 ica. Possibly it will be found in time that it is some old German variety 

 renamed. It was placed on the fruit list of the American Pomological 

 Society in 1909. 



Tree medium in size, rather vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, healthy; trunk 

 and branches thick, with niunerous large lenticels; branchlets slender, long, willowy; 

 leaves three and one-half inches long, one and five-eighths inches wide, ovate to obovate, 

 thick, stiff, leathery, dark green; margin finely serrate, tipped with reddish-brown glands; 

 petiole three-fourths of an inch in length, with one or two large, globose glands variable 

 in position; flowers one inch across, in dense clusters. 



Fruit matures medium early; over one-half inch in diamter, roundish-oblate; color 

 light red becoming dark red at full maturity; stem one inch long; flesh yellowish- white, 

 with abundant pinkish juice, tender and melting, pleasant flavored, sprightly; good in 

 quality; stone semi-clinging, roundish-ovate, pltmip; prominently ridged along the ventral 

 suture. 



TOUSSAINT 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 1:178-180, PI. VII. 1768. 2. Kraft Pom. Atisl. 1:7, Tab. 18 fig. 2. 

 1792. 3. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 2: No. 21, PI. 1846. 4. Ann. Pom. Beige 1:103, 104, Pi. 1853. 

 5. Mortillet Z-e Cemzer 2:205, 308. 1866. 6. Leroy i'ic^. Pom. 5:305, 306 fig., 307, 308. 1877. j. Rev. 

 Hart. 250. 1906. 



Stdls Bluhender Kirschbaum. 8. Kriinitz Enc. 42, 43. 1790. 



All Saints. 9. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 661-668. 1819. 10. Prince Pom. Man. 2:152, 153. 

 1832. II. Dochnahl Fiihr. Obstkunde 3:72. 1858. 12. Hogg Fruit Man. 277. 1884. 13. Mathieu 

 Norn. Pom. 332. 1889. 



Toussaint is a marked deviation from its species. Instead of bearing 

 blossoms normally this variety sends out small branches from the buds. 

 In the axis of the first fotir leaves are borne the buds destined to produce 

 similar branches the following spring. As the branches elongate these 

 buds remain dormant but others are borne which produce flowers in umbel- 

 like clusters of two or three. The trees begin blooming three or four weeks 

 later than other cherries and new buds and flowers appear continually 

 until August or thereabouts. The tree, too, is most striking in appearance, 

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