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CHAPTER V 

 THE MINOR VARIETIES OF CHERRIES 



A Coeur Hative. P. avium, i. Mas Pom. Gen. 11:159- 1882. 



Listed in this reference. 

 A Feuilles de Pecher Grosse. P. ccrasus? i. Loud. Hort. Soc. Cat. 49. 183 1. 



Merely mentioned; probably similar to Willow Leaved. 

 Abels Schwarze Knorpelkirsche. P. avium, i. Proskauer Obstsort. 55. 1907. 



Mentioned in this reference as a black, hard-fleshed, Sweet Cherry. 

 Abundance. P. avium, i. Burbank Cat. 7. 1911-12. 



Abundance is one of Burbaiik's seedlings from Napoleon. The tree is a heavy, almost 

 annual bearer. The fruit is large, never cracks, and exceeds the parent in productive- 

 ness and beauty; it ripens a week later. 



Abbesse. P. avium X P. cerasus. i. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 80. 1890. 2. Budd-Hansen 

 Am. Hort. Man. 2:284. 1903. 



Abbesse was found in North Silesia and is supposed to be a Red Duke cross. Friiit 

 meditun to large, cordate; stem long, thick at the base; cavity shallow; suture distinct; 

 skin dark red; flesh meaty, with colored juice, mildly acid; quality good. 

 Act Gillos. P. avium, i. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 22. 1892-93. 



Act Gillos was imported by Leo Weltz of Ohio, in a collection of sweet varieties 

 said to have come from Bokhara, Turkestan. Tree vigorous; leaves large; fruit yeUow, 

 resembling Cleveland. 



Adams Crown. P. avium, i. Brookshaw Hort. Reposit. 1:45, PI. 23 fig. i. 1823. 

 2. Hogg Fruit Man. 275, 277. 1884. 3. Mawe-Abercrombie Comp. Card. 632. 

 1829. 4. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:312 fig., 313. 1877. 



Adams Herzkirsche. 5. ///. Handb. 99 fig., 100. i860. 6. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 332. 

 1889. 



Adam. 7. Mas Le Verger 8:69, 70, fig. 33. 1866-73. 



Adams Crown is supposed to have been raised by a man named Adams in the 

 vicinity of Sittingboume, Kent, England. It was formerly grown in the orchards near 

 London for market trade. Tree large, vigorous, usually productive, bears early; fruit 

 medium in size, rovmdish-cordate, flattened at the base, slightly compressed; cavity wide, 

 deep; suture shallow, indistinct; stem slender, long; skin thin, transparent, attractive 

 pale red speckled with darker red deepening to carmine, showing distinctly the fibers 

 underneath; flesh whitish, juicy, tender, somewhat stringy, sweet, sprightly, pleasant; very 

 good in quality; stone small, roundish-ovate, flattened at the base, plump; season early. 

 Adiington. Species? i. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 45. 1831. 



Mentioned in the reference given. 

 Afifane. Species? i. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. 45. 183 1. 



Mentioned in this reference. 

 Afghanistan. P. avium, i. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 315. 1897. 2. Van Lindley Cat. 

 371. 1899. 



