THE CHERRY 137 



Yet the case is not really quite so bad as it 

 seems. There is an old familiar saying that "blood 

 will tell," and our new formula, if properly ap- 

 plied, gives full support to the saying. 



Making application of it, we may say that the 

 dwarf cherry which we may have developed as 

 the result of about nine or ten years' efforts at 

 the production of a giant, is after all a thing of 

 quality, even though it lacks one of the qualities 

 that we are seeking. It is a shrub as to size, but 

 it is none the less a thoroughbred as regards a 

 number of other qualities. In the matter of color, 

 let us say, it is a vivid red ; it is sweet and appetiz- 

 ing; it is resistant to disease; it will bear shipping 



and so on. 



NOT so BAD AS IT SEEMS 



Indeed, it is not unlikely that, as regards all 

 desirable characteristics but one, our cherries are 

 of such quality that, even in the patrician ranks 

 in which they find themselves, they must be ad- 

 mitted to be "upper crust," to use a phrase that is 

 said sometimes to pass current in human patrician 

 circles. Or upon reverting to our formulae, and 

 therefore to the terminology of the printer, we 

 may say that they are "upper case" as regards 

 all qualities other than size. 



As to bigness, to be sure, they are pure reces- 

 sives and must be labeled bb; but as to juiciness 



