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thinks that the variety under consideration is a hybrid, but I 

 am unable to discover any evidence of hybridity. The original 

 tree of the variety 'outgrew the parent and reached a diameter 

 of head of fifteen feet, was entirely free from thorns and 

 suckers, and bore a remarkably rich and beautiful foliage.' 

 The variety blooms very early, some days ahead of the Mari- 

 anna, and the flowers, as in all varieties of P. cerasifera, are 

 somewhat scattered and less abundant than in the native 

 species." — Cornell Experiment station Bulletin 62:36, 1892. 



Diamond. — A variety under this name is mentioned by 

 John A. Hogg in Nebraska Horticultural Report 121, 1890. The 

 name doubtless belongs to the variety of the Domestica group 

 described elsewhere in this book. Probably the variety is now 

 extinct and need not be renamed. 



Dw r ARF Rocky Mountain Cherry. — The variety intro- 

 duced several years ago under this name by Charles E. Pen- 

 nock of Colorado has received a good deal of notice. The 

 interest in it arises chiefly from the fact of its novelty. It 

 does not seem to have any general merit as a garden fruit. It 

 is the best known representative of Primus pumila besseyi in 

 cultivation. The tree is dwarf, four feet high, bushy, and 

 subject to the attacks of the twig blight (monilia), but other- 

 wise hardy. The fruit is small, oval, black, rather sour and 

 puckerish. Mr. Pennock has been using this variety in hybrid- 

 ization with promising results. 



Ebon. — Put into the Marianna (Myrobalan) group by J. W. 

 Kerr, who describes it as follows: "New, medium size, round 

 to round oblong ; skin very dark red ; flesh red, cling ; tree a 

 free upright grower, with distinct foliage." 



Ellis. — "Rather large, round, red, skin very thin, semi- 

 cling. Ranks high for market or for home use. Late. Said 

 to be a cross between Wildgoose and Golden Beauty. Northern 

 Texas. Introduced by T. L. Ellis." — Bailey. It seems strange 

 that a variety worthy of so much praise should not have been 

 heard from since 1892. 



Fawn. — Fruit irregular spherical ; size medium ; cavity 

 medium, rounded : stem slender ; suture a line ; color dull 

 red ; dots many, large, yellow ; bloom apparently none ; skin 

 thick, tough ; flesh yellow ; stone medium size, oval, only 

 slightly flattened, cling ; quality fair to good. 



Specimens from J. W. Kerr, Maryland. 



Frostproof. — Fruit spherical, small, cherry-like ; deep, 

 dark crimson, with a fine suture line and many very minute 

 dots ; skin medium thick and firm, not astringent ; flesh yel- 

 low, more or less streaked with red, notably firm, even when 

 overripe, meaty, sweet, pleasant ; quality good ; stone small, 

 round, smooth, cling; season last of June in Missouri. 



