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Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, open, productive; trunk stout; branches thick, 

 smooth, dull reddish-brown covered with ash-gray, with a few small lenticels; branchlets 

 thick, reddish-brown sHghtly overspread with ash-gray, smooth, glabrous, with a few 

 inconspicuous, raised lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, four and one-half inches long, two and one-half inches wide, folded 

 upward, obovate, thin; upper surface light green, smooth; lower surface dull green, lightly 

 pubescent; apex acute, base abrupt; margin coarsely and doubly serrate, glandular; petiole 

 one and one-half inches long, slender, tinged with dull red, with from one to three reniform, 

 reddish glands on the stalk. 



Buds large, long, pointed, very plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds or in 

 small clusters on short spurs; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers 

 one inch across, arranged in twos and threes; pedicels one inch long, slender, glabrous, 

 greenish; calyx-tube tinged with red, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes reddish, long, acute, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, reflexed; petals roundish, crenate, with short, blunt claws; 

 anthers yellowish; filaments one-eighth inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in 

 length, sometimes defective. 



Fnut matures in early mid-season; nearly one inch in diameter, roundish-cordate, 

 compressed; cavity of medium depth, wide, flaring; suture variable in depth, distinct, 

 wide; apex roundish; color shades of crimson on a yellowish-white background; dots 

 numerous, small, Hght russet, somewhat conspicuous, especially just before maturity ; stem 

 slender, one and one-half inches long, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating 

 from the pulp; flesh whitish, with colorless juice, tender, meaty, mild, sweet; very good in 

 quality; stone clinging, rather large, roundish, blunt, with smooth surfaces; with a broad, 

 ventral suture. 



WRAGG 

 Prunus cerasus 



I. la. Hort. Soc. RpL 171. 1884. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 95. 1887. 3. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 17:15 

 fig. 8. 1892. 4. Neb. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 39. 1892. 5. Am. Card. 20:178. 1899. 6. Del. Sta. An. Rpt. 

 12:119, 120. 1900. 7. la. Sta. Bui. 73:89, fig. 26. 1903. 8. .Am. Pom. Soc. Sp. Rpt. 38. 1904-05. 

 9. Wash. Sta. Bui. 92:22, 23. 1910. 



Wragg is either English Morello or a strain of that variety. Trees 

 on the grounds of this Station are identical with English Morello but it 

 may be that here, and occasionally elsewhere, the older sort has been sub- 

 stituted for Wragg. In Iowa, where the new variety is most largely grown, 

 pomologists claim that it is distinct and that it is an improvement on English 

 Morello. Professor J. L. Budd, an authority on Russian cherries, beheved 

 that this sort is distinct and of Russian origin having, according to him, 

 been brought to America by Ellwanger & Barry of Rochester, New York, 

 in an importation of Russian trees. Captain C. L. Watrous of Des Moines, 

 Iowa, another prominent pomologist of that State, was of the opinion that 

 Wragg came to light on the grounds of J. Wragg, Waukee, Iowa, as a sprout 



