VLADIMIR AND KOSLOV MORELLO CHERRIES. 



Sir, — I have received the thirtieth 

 report of the Fruit Growers Association 

 of Ontario, which gives the fifth annual 

 report of the Fruit Experiment Station 

 of Ontario under the joint control of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 

 and the Fruit Growers Association of 

 Ontario, for 1898, and on page 41, of 

 the last mentioned report, I find a plate 

 of the Vladimir cherry, giving experi- 

 ments from the stock which was sent 

 out by your Association in 1887, which 

 was anything but satisfactory and rating 

 it at fourth rate for either home use or 

 market. 



Having had some experience with 

 this variety of cherry, I write to say that 

 with your permission I will contribute 

 my knowledge of the same for publica- 

 tion with the hope that it may somewhat 

 rectify the mistaken opinion which is 

 likely to be formed by the readers of 

 said report and with the hopes of estab- 

 lishing the fact that a variety of cherry 

 under the name (Vladimir) is one of the 

 most profitable varieties grown in this 

 section either for home use or market. 



Some thirty years ago there was an 

 American Nurseryman by the name of 

 Carpenter established a nurser)' at Peter- 

 boro', Ont , and about twenty-five years 

 ago he sold a large orchard to Mr. Lewis 

 Gleason, of Haldimand Township, and 

 among these trees he got two cherry 

 trees which thrived well and soon com- 

 menced to show fruit of very supeiior 

 quality in abundance, which attracted 

 the attention of the people in that neigh- 

 borhood who were anxious to get trees 

 of this variety ; but as Mr. Carpenter had 

 failed in his undertaking and has since 

 died none knew the variety of cherry or 

 where he got this stock from. However, 

 in the summer of 1891 our salesman, 

 Mr. J. L. Knapp, called upon Mr. Glea- 



son, who told him that if he could 

 furnish this particular variety of cherry 

 true to kind and exactly the same as his 

 two trees, without a doubt, he would 

 take 50 or 100 trees and many others 

 who lived in the same neighborhood 

 told Mr. Knapp that they would also 

 order if sure of getting this particular 

 and profitable variety- Therefore, Mr. 

 Knapp picked some of the fruit which 

 was not fully ripe and also brought in 

 some of the wood and foliage to me to see 

 if I knewthe variety, but not knowing it I 

 sent it over to a leading Rochester, N. Y., 

 Nursery Company, believing they would 

 know it, but the result was the same, 

 they could not name it. Therefore, Mr. 

 Knapp returned to Mr. Gleason and 

 secured more fruit and foliage and sent 

 it to Prof. J. L. Budd, of Iowa Agricul- 

 tural College, Department of Horticul- 

 ture, Ames, Iowa, and herewith I give 

 you a copy of bis 'reply. 



Ames, Iowa, Aug. 17th, 1891 

 Mr. J L Knapp, 



My Dear Sib : — Yours with cherries at 

 hand. In leaf and fruit the samples closely 

 resemble the " V^ladimir " cherry found in 

 Poland and North Germany as well as in 

 Russia. It is a small tree and has been grown 

 so long from pits that it is exceedingly vari- 

 able. The leaf is like the variety of " Vladi- 

 mir " we got from Warsaw, Poland. I believe 

 two hundred varieties of this dwarf morello 

 can be found in the North and East Europe, 

 hence the ditiiculty of naming. Planted 

 along the highways of East Europe we can 

 find in two miles fifty slight variations from 

 seeds and sprouts. 



(Signed,) J. L. Budd. 



Taken from the Iowa State Register, 

 Newspaper, of Friday, September, 1891, 

 Weekly edition : 



Valdimie Cherry. 



Mr. J. L. Knapp, of Colbome, Ont. Canada, 

 writes Prof. J. L. Budd, Ames, Iowa. 



Enclosed in box sent by mail is a sample of 

 an unknown cherry. No one here knows its 

 name and they cannot name it in Rochester, 

 N.Y. I found it in Western Ontario on a 

 farmer's place and they were so hardy, such 

 excellent bearers, and so fine in quality, that 



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