398 Descriptions of Select Varieties of CJierjies, 



shining red when mature : Stem, long, about one and a half 

 inches, slender, and rather deeply inserted in a shallow cavity: 

 Flesh, pale amber color, tender, and slightly adhering to the 

 stone : Jidce, abundant and rich, subacid, similar to the May 

 Duke : Stone, medium size, roundish. Ripe the last of July 

 and beginning of August. 



The frnit is borne in pairs, or threes, on a short peduncle, 

 about a quarter of an inch in length. The tree is of vigorous, 

 upright, and rather compact growth, little more spreading 

 than the May Duke, and with rather larger leaves. It will 

 prove a very valuable cherry. 



2. Arch Duke. Guide to the Orchard. 



Griotte de Portugal, Duhamel. 



Portugal Duke, of some collections. 



Late Arch Duke, ? tj * c /^ , oj tj lo^r. 

 _ ^ , ' S-Hort. Soc. Cat., 3d Ed. 1842. 



Late Duke, j 



There has been a variety of opinions among pomological 

 writers in regard to this cherry, {fg- 

 34,) some asserting that it is synonymous 

 with the Late Duke. Lindley is the 

 only English author who seems to have 

 been acquainted with it. Mr. Thomp- 

 son, at the time he wrote the excellent 

 paper in the Transaciiovs of the Hort. 

 Society, above alluded to, had not proved 

 it, and, as late as 1842, it had not been 

 identified in the garden of the Society. 

 The May Duke has generally been sold 

 for this variety ; our tree was received 

 from Mr. Rivers, and is quite unlike 

 either the May Duke or Late Duke, 

 though the habit of the tree is similar ; 

 the fruit ripens intermediate between the 

 two, and is more heart-shaped, of larger 

 size, rather darker color, and fully equal 



Fig. M. Arch Duke Cherry. ^ !, r^, ■ V^ 



to either of them m quality. 

 Fruit, large, one and an eighth of an inch in diameter, ob- 

 tusely heart-shaped, slightly compressed, with a distinct 



