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Orel No. 24. P. cerasus. i. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 328. 1S8S. 2. la. Sia. Bid. 73-n. 

 78. 1903. 



This variety was imported by Budd but the name was lost. Some believe it to be 

 Lutovka but as grown at the Iowa Station it is more like Early Morello in form and size 

 of tree and fruit. Tree smaller and more open than Lutovka; fruit of medium size, 

 roundish-oblate; cavity deep; stem medium in length, stout; suture a faint line; skin thin, 

 translucent, comeUan-red; flesh firm, colored, juicy, pleasingly acid; good; pit round, 

 angular; season the latter part of June. 

 Orel Sweet. P. cerasus. i. la. Sta. Bui. ig:s49- 1892. 2. Wash. Sta. Bui. 92:21. 1910. 



Orel No. 26. 3. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 328. 1888. 



Orel Sweet is known in Europe as Lianzkaja Black; it was introduced into America 

 by Budd as Orel 26; one of the hardiest of Sweet Cherries. Tree large, with a spreading 

 top; fruit of medivmi size, roimdish-oblate ; stem long, slender; skin thin, tender, dark 

 red; flesh soft, subacid; pit small, round, stained; ripens the last of July in Washington. 

 Orleans. P. cerasus. i. Brown Bros. Cat. 19. 1906. 



Orleans originated in Orleans County, New York. Probably not propagated at pres- 

 ent, although known to many as an improved Montmorency. 

 Orlea Smith. Species? i. Mas Pom. Gen. 11:161. 1882. 



Mentioned but not described. 

 Osceola. P. avium, i. Mag. Hort. 19:167, 168. 1833. 2. Elliott Fr. Book 200 fig. 

 1854. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 74. 1862. 



Professor J. P. Kirtland of Cleveland, Ohio, originated the Osceola in 1842, from a 

 pit of the Yellow Spanish. It was placed on the fruit list of the American Pomological 

 Society in 1862 but was taken from the list in 1891. Tree round, spreading, hardy, healthy, 

 productive; fruit medium to large, cordate; stem moderately stout inserted in a deep cavity; 

 suture deep, broad; color dark purplish-red, inclining to black; flesh dark red, juicy, rich, 

 sweet; pit medium or small, ovate, rounded; season the last of June and early July. 

 Ostheim (of Morris). P. cerasus. i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 75. 1890. 



This is a small, dark colored cherry differing from the Minnesota Ostheim in being later 

 and slightly inferior in quality. Fruit round, compressed; quaUty fair, lacking in juiciness; 

 pit large; ripens about August 6th in Ottawa, Canada. 

 Othello. P. pumila. i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 353. 1896. 



One of the Canada Experiment Farm's seedlings of Prunus pumila, the Sand Cherry ; 

 fruit large, very black, fair. 



Owanka. P. pumila X P. americana. i. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 108:1908. 2. Ibid. 

 130:176. 1911. 



Owanka, a cross between the Sand Cherry and Gold plum, was discarded soon after 

 it was sent out because of its bitter skin; tree hardy, productive; fruit one and three-eighths 

 inches in diameter; apex terminated by a minute prickle; skin dark red, with blue bloom; 

 flesh yellow. 

 Ox Heart (of America). P. avium. 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 24. 1899. 



Major Francis. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 127. 1875. 3. Wash. Sta. Bui. g2:2g. 1910. 



Coeur de BoeuJ nouveau ? 4. Mas Pom. Gen. 11:160. 1882. 



