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Tree large, vigorous, somewhat erect, very healthy, rather productive; branches 

 stocky, somewhat angular, with large, roimdish, light colored lenticels; internodes of 

 unequal length; leaves medium in size, oval or obovate, sharply pointed; margin finely 

 serrate; petiole short, slender, tipped with two reniform, orange-red glands; flowers 

 medium in size; petals obovate. 



Fruit matures early in June; rather small, rotmdish-cordate, often one-sided, with a 

 distinct suture; color whitish-yellow, tinged and speckled with pale red in the sun; stem 

 long, slender, inserted in a wide, shallow cavity; skin firm; flesh light colored, firm, half- 

 tender, breaking, juicy, sugary, pleasant; first quality; stone rather large, roundish-oval, 

 with a pointed apex. 



WINDSOR 

 Prunus avium 



I. Card. Mon. 24:208. 1882. 2. Cult. & Count. Gent. 49:636. 1884. 3. Atn. Pom. Soc. Cat. 22. 

 1885. 4. Del. Sta. Bui. 35:16 fig. 7. 1897. 5. Out. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt. 5:41 fig. 1898. 6. Am. Card. 

 21:76. 1900. 7. Can. Hort. 25:3, 262 fig., 263. 1902. 8. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 56, 57. 1907. 



Windsor is the standard late Bigarreau and one of the most profitable 

 of the hard-fleshed cherries grown in New York. Both fruit and trees 

 deserve the approbation of cherry-growers. In color the cherries meet the 

 market demand, buyers preferring a dark-colored Sweet Cherry. None 

 would find fault with the appearance of Windsor. The flesh is firm and the 

 product stands harvesting and shipping well and at a season of the year 

 when brown-rot is usually rife this variety is fairly free from this 

 scourge of the Sweet Cherry. The quality is from good to very good, 

 equaled but not surpassed by others of its class. But it is in its tree-char- 

 acters that the superiority of Windsor is best shown. The trees have the 

 reputation of being the hardiest of the Bigarreaus and of thriving in many 

 soils. They are usually fruitful. To offset these merits, the trees have two 

 or three rather serious faults. Thus, they do not come in bearing early; 

 they are tall and upright in growth, being almost fastigiate, making it 

 difficult to harvest the crop; and the load of fruit is too much clustered. 

 Cherry-growers agree that the worst of all pests of this fruit is the robin 

 and that the Windsor, for some reason or other, is the freest of its kind 

 from this and other thieving birds. From the behavior of the variety 

 in New York, we can heartily join with practically all who are growing this 

 variety in recommending it as a late, market Sweet Cherry 



Windsor originated in the latter half of the Nineteenth Centtiry on the 

 farm of James Dougall, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and was introduced 

 to fruit-growers in 1881 by Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, New York. 

 It has been planted extensively in many sections of this country for both 



