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Wood 



Wood has many qualities that fit it for the home orchard and 

 but few to commend it for commercial plantations. The trees are 

 tender to cold, not very productive, and somewhat fastidious to 

 soils; they are, however, vigorous, healthy, and early in bearing 1 . 

 The cherries arc beautiful in appearance, delicious in flavor, large, 

 and beautiful in color, but are too soft to stand shipping, crack 

 badly in wet weather, and are susceptible to brown rot. 



Yellow 



Yellow Spanish is notable for its tree characters. The trees 

 are large and vigorous, bear abundantly and regularly, come in 

 bearing young, and have the crop well distributed. The cherries, 

 too, are good in most characters but rim a little smaller and are 

 more subject to attacks of brown rot than are several similar 

 kinds. In quality Yellow Spanish is very good indeed, having 

 tender flesh ami sweet, rich flavor. It is a splendid mid-season 

 cherry that cannot be spared in New York from either home or 

 commercial plantations. 



DUKES 



Late Duke 



Late Duke is a variant of the well-known May Duke, differing 

 in ripening from two weeks to a month later. The size, color, 

 flavor, and season of the fruit all commend it as do the vigor, 

 health, and fruitfulness of the trees. Ripening in a season when 

 other cherries are gone or rapidly going, Late Duke is a valuable 

 fruit in the home orchard and for nearby markets to which tender- 

 fieshed varieties can be shipped. Those who want late cherries 

 can have them by planting this variety on a northern slope, against 

 a northern wall, or in a cool soil, where a part of the crop at least 

 will remain until August. 



Duke 



May Duke is one of the oldest, and, the world over, one of the 

 most popular cherries. It is finely flavored especially when pre- 

 pared for the table, is ^delicious to eat out of hand, is early, may 

 he left to hang for a month or six weeks. It thrives in greater 



