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home and market use and is now offered for sale by a large number of 

 nurserymen. The American Pomological Society added Windsor to its 

 fruit catalog list in 1885 and the variety still holds a place there. Though 

 rather widely known in the United States the commercial culture of this 

 variety is almost wholly confined to New York. It seems as yet not to 

 have fotmd its way to Europe, a fact to be regretted, for its many good 

 qualities would soon make it known in the Old World where the Sweet 

 Cherry is better grown and more appreciated than in America. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, very productive; trunk thick, 

 shaggy; branches stocky, very smooth, brown nearly overspread with ash-gray, with 

 large lenticels ; brancUets thick, rather short, brown overspread with light ash-gray, smooth, 

 with few small, inconspicuous lenticels. 



Leaves four inches long, two inches wide, folded upward, obovate to oval, thin; upper 

 surface dark green, slightly rugose; lower surface light green, pubescent; margin doubly 

 crenate, glandular ; petiole one and one-fourth inches long, tinged with dull red, with from 

 one to three globose, reddish glands of medium size on the stalk. 



Buds conical or pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and in very 

 numerous clusters variable in size, on short spurs; leaf-scars somewhat prominent; season 

 of bloom intermediate; flowers white, one and one-fourth inches across; borne in scattering 

 clusters, in ones and twos; pedicels one inch long, slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube 

 green, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes greenish or with a tinge of red, acute, glabrous 

 within and without, refiexed; petals broad-oval, slightly crenate, with short, blunt claws; 

 filaments five-sixteenths of an inch long; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit matures in late mid-season; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, slightly oblong 

 to conical, compressed; cavity deep, wide, flaring; suture a line; apex roundish, with a 

 depression at the center; color very dark red becoming almost black; dots numerous, small, 

 russet, obscure; stem slender, one and one-fourth inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin 

 thin, adhering to the pulp; flesh light red, with reddish jviice, tender, meaty, crisp, mild, 

 sweet; good to very good in quality; stone semi-free, ovate, flattened, blunt-pointed, with 

 smooth surfaces; ventral suture rather prominent near the apex. 



WOOD 



Primus avium 

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



Governor Wood. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 196 fig. 1854. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 108. 1856. 4. Leroy 

 Diet. Pom. 5:324 fig. 1877. 



Wood is preeminently a Sweet Cherry for the amateur, having many 

 qualities that fit it for the home orchard and but few to commend it to 

 commercial growers. The trees are a little tender to cold, are not quite 

 productive enough to make the variety profitable and are, too, somewhat 

 fastidious as to soils. To offset these defects, they are vigorous and 



