THE KANSAS CHERRY. 15 



ment for fancy fruit is a diameter not less than seven-eighths of an 

 inch, and for No. 1, not less than three-fourths of an inch. Whole- 

 sale prices usually range from $40 to |60 per ton for black and $80 to 

 $120 for white, but this year ( 1899 ) canners have paid as high as 

 $160 per ton for white cherries. The higher rates can only be ex- 

 pected during years of short crops. 



A KANSAS CHERRY— THE BALDWIN. {See eoloved plate.) 



By its Discoverer. 



The original was planted in the spring of 1888 in an orchard at 

 Seneca, Kan., for an Early Richmond cherry, which had been bud- 

 ded on a common Morello seedling. The budded part was acciden- 

 tally broken off and a sprout came from the root which seemed so 

 vigorous that it was left to grow. It proved to be such a rank grower 

 that it soon attracted attention, and when it fruited, which was the 

 fourth year, it showed so much finer, larger and better fruit than any 

 other, that the small boys always sought it out from among several 

 hundred cherry trees of various sorts. The tree is an upright, vigor- 

 ous grower, forming a round head ; leaves large and broad ; bloom 

 pure white, changing to pink; fruit large, almost round, very dark, 

 transparent wine color; flavor slightly acid, yet the sweetest and 

 richest of the Morello type ; stems rather large, of medium length, 

 and generally in pairs. Unexcelled in earliness, vigor, hardiness, 

 quality and iDroductiveness. Out of 800 trees it readily attracts at- 

 tention as being the most thrifty and beautiful. 



It fruited four years, and each year seemed to be so uniform in 

 size, productiveness and earliness, that I decided to give it a name 

 and propagate from it. It was first named the "Kansas Queen," but 

 on account of it being against the rules of the American Pomological 

 Society to give compound names to new fruits, and upon the sugges- 

 tion of W. F. Hiekes, of Huntsville, Ala., who became interested in 

 it, it was named "Baldwin." Since then I have gathered fruit from 

 it every year. 



The unprecedented severe cold weather of the winter of 1898-'99 

 fully tested its endurance and hardiness. All Baldwin cherry trees 

 came through in the best of condition, with perfect buds, more vigor- 

 ous and thrifty than English Morello, Early Richmond or Montmo- 

 rency in same orchard under same conditions, and while old varieties 

 show forty per cent, of dead trees and only half a crop of fruit, the 

 original Baldwin tree was loaded with fruit, and 200 Baldwin trees 

 planted in orchard in spring of 1898 show only a loss of four per cent. 



