202 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



from another tree. Colonel G. B. Brackett, pomologist of the United 



States Department of Agriculture, who visited Mr. Wragg's place some 



years ago and compared the new cherry with the English Morello, could 



find no distinguishing characters between the two. On the other hand, 



Mr. Wragg insisted that they were distinct. The American Pomological 



Society calls Wragg and English Morello the same. Those who believe 



that the two are distinct say that the fruit of Wragg is larger, the trees 



hardier and that the cherries ripen a Uttle later than those of English 



Morello. With the information now at hand it is impossible to say here 



whether or not Wragg is distinct. A compiled description taken from the 



text describing this cherry is so unsatisfactory that we offer none and refer 



the reader to that of English Morello from which it differs but little, if 



at all. 



YELLOW SPANISH 



Prunus avium 



I. Miller Card. Diet. 1:1754. 2. Forsyth Treat. Fr. Trees 42. 1803. 3. Prince Treat. Hort. 28. 

 1828. 4. Prince Pom. Man. 2:125. 1832. 5. Thomas Am. Fruit Cull. 372. 1867. 6. Am. Pom. Soc. 

 Cat. 17. 1897. 7. Budd-Hansen Am. Horl. Man. 2:291. 1903. 



Biguarre Cherrie. 8. Parkinson Par. Ter. 572. 1629. 9. Rea Flora 205. 1676. 



Spanish. 10. Gerarde Herball 1503, fig. 3. 1636. 



Bigarreau Commun. 11. Duhamel Trait. Arb. Fr. 1:167, 168. 1768. 12. Prince Pom. Man. 2:128. 

 1832. 13. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 2: No. 5, PL 1846. 14. Mortillet Le Cerisie' 2:115-119, fig. 26. 1866. 

 15. Pom. France 7: No. 2, PI. 2. 1871. 16. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:188-191, fig. 1877. 17. Cat. Cong. 

 Pom. France 20, fig. 1906. 



Gemeine Marmorkirsche. 18. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 301-303. 1819. 19. ///. Handb. 123 

 fig., 124. i860. 



Craffion. 20. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 338-340. 1819. 21. Brookshaw //or/. Reposil. 1:69, PI. 

 34 fig. I. 1823. 22. Prince Pom. Man. 2:137, 138. 1832. 23. Cultivator N. S. 6:21, fig. 6. 1849. 

 24. Elliott Fr. Book 208. 1854. 



Bigarreau. 25. Mag. Hort. 9:202. 1843. 26. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 179 fig., 180. 1845. 

 27. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. Gard. 102. 1846. 28. Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr. 52. 1848. 29. Cole Am. 

 Fr. Book 233 fig. 31. 1849. 30. Hogg Fruit Man. 281, 282. 1884. 



For centuries Yellow Spanish must have been the best of all the 

 Bigarreaus and it is only in comparatively late years that it has had rivals. 

 Even yet in tree-characters it is hardly equaled, surpassing Windsor, which 

 has a notable tree, in several respects and falling short of it only in hardi- 

 ness. The trees are large, — perhaps the largest of all the varieties of 

 Prunus avium, — having an upright-spreading top which gives a large bear- 

 ing surface and forms a canopy of splendid foliage. The trees are vigorous, 

 bear abundantly and regularly and come in bearing young, with the crop 

 well distributed and not in clusters as is the case and the fault of Wind- 

 sor. Unfortunately, the cherries, though very good in most characters, 



