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SPARHAWK 



TIMME 



other Amarelles, and the trees are too small 

 and unproductive to be worth planting except 

 where hardiness is a prime requisite. Sklanka 

 was imported to this country from Russia in 

 1883 by J. L. Budd of Ames, Iowa. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, spreading, with droop- 

 ing branchlets, open-topped, unproductive. Leaves 3^4 

 inches long, 1% inches wide, elliptical, thick, stiff; 

 margin finely and doubly serrate, with small, dark 

 glands ; petiole % inch long, thick, with 1-4 small, 

 globose, orange-colored glands. Flowers midseason ; 

 1 inch across, white ; borne in dense clusters usually 

 in threes. Fruit early ; % inch in diameter, oblate, not 

 compressed ; cavity narrow, abrupt ; suture lacking ; apex 

 flattened or strongly depressed ; color bright currant-red ; 

 dots numerous, light colored, conspicuous ; stem 1 inch 

 long, adherent to the fruit ; skin tough, separating from 

 the pulp ; flesh pale yellow, with colorless juice, tender 

 and melting, sour ; of good quality ; stone semi-free, 

 dinging, about l /z inch in diameter, round, flattened, 

 blunt, with smooth surfaces. 



SPARHAWK. P. avium. Sparhawk's 

 Honey. Honey Heart. Sparhawk has little 

 to recommend it for either home or commer- 

 cial orchard except the rich and honeyed 

 sweetness of the cherries, which makes it worth 

 planting by connoisseurs of good fruits. The 

 name "honey," which appears in the synonyms, 

 is indicative of the flavor of the fruit. The 

 cherries are too small, and the pits altogether 

 too large for a commercial product. The tree 

 is upright-spreading, with numerous thick 

 branches, over which the cherries are rather 

 thickly scattered in ones, twos, and threes, 

 but never in clusters. The fruit-stems are 

 characteristically long and slender, although 

 of the Bigarreau group, and the flesh is too 

 tender to withstand harvesting, shipping, and 

 the brown-rot. This cherry was introduced by 

 Edward Sparhawk, Brighton, Massachusetts, 

 about 1825. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright, open-topped, hardy, un- 

 productive. Leaves numerous, 5 inches long, 2*4 inches 



across. Fruit midseason ; % inch in diameter, conical, 

 compressed ; color dark red over a yellowish back- 

 ground, finely mottled ; stem 1 Ms inches long, adherent 

 to the fruit ; skin thin, tough, separates from the pulp ; 

 flesh pale yellowish-white, with colorless juice, tender, 

 crisp, highly flavored, mild, aromatic, sweet ; very good 

 in quality ; stone nearly free, large, ovate, flattened, 

 blunt, with smooth surfaces. 



SPATE AMARELLE. P. Cerasus. Spate 

 Morello. This is another variety with Amarelle 

 fruit and a Morello-like tree unquestionably 

 a hybrid between varieties of the two groups. 

 Several references from the Middle West men- 

 tion Spate Amarelle as very promising, but 

 where such sorts as Early Richmond and the 

 Montmorencies thrive, it is unpromising for 

 any purpose. The cherries are too poor in 

 quality, and the trees too unproductive to 

 make the variety even a poor rival of a score 

 or more of Amarelles and Dukes with which 

 it would have to compete. The origin of this 

 cherry is unknown, but it was growing in 

 Hanover, Germany, as Spate Morelle in 1785. 

 In 1883 J. L. Budd, Ames, Iowa, brought the 

 variety to America. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright-spreading, 

 round-topped, unproductive. Leaves numerous, small, 

 folded upward, oval to somewhat obovate, rather stiff ; 

 upper surface dark green, smooth ; margin finely ser- 

 rate, glandular ; petiole greenish or with a slight bronze 

 tinge, glandless or with 1-4 small, globose, yellowish 

 glands. Flowers late ; 1 inch across, white ; borne in 

 scattered clusters, usually in threes. Fruit midseason ; 

 % inch long, oblate, slightly compressed ; cavity shallow, 

 narrow ; suture indistinct ; apex rounded or depressed ; 

 color dark red ; dots numerous, very small, obscure ; 

 stem slender, 1% inches long; skin thin, tender; flesh 

 light red, with light-colored juice, tender, tart ; of good 

 quality; stone free, round, flattened, with smooth sur- 

 faces. 



SUDA. P. Cerasus. Suda Hardy. Suda has 

 been widely advertised as an improved Eng- 

 lish Morello, but the new variety is not an 

 improvement on the old. The trees of Suda 

 in general aspect are more upright and not so 

 productive; the stems of the cherries are 

 longer and more slender than those of English 

 Morello, being but an inch in length in the 

 one variety and an inch and three-fourths in 

 the other. The cherries are not so high in 

 quality as those of the older and probably 

 the parent variety. It is doubtful if there is 

 a place for Suda in the cherry industry of the 

 country. This cherry was originated in the 

 garden of a Captain Suda, Louisiana, Missouri, 

 about 1880. 



Tree vigorous, rather unproductive. Leaves numerous, 

 4 inches long, 2 *, inches wide, obovate ; margin doubly 

 serrate, with dark glands ; petiole 1 inch long, glandless 

 or with 1 or 2 reniform, yellowish-brown glands. Flow- 

 ers late, white, 1 inch across. Fruit very late ; % inch 

 in diameter, round-cordate, slightly compressed ; cavity 

 flaring ; suture indistinct ; color dark purplish-red ; stem 

 slender, 1 % inches long, adherent to the fruit ; skin 

 separating from the pulp ; flesh dark red, with dark- 

 colored juice, tender, meaty, sprightly, astringent, very 

 sour ; poor in quality ; stone free or nearly so, pointed, 

 with smooth surfaces. 



TERRY. P. Cerasus. Terry Early. Fruit- 

 growers in the Middle West believe that Terry 

 is a most promising cherry for the prairies, as 

 the trees stand the heat of the summer and 

 the cold of the winter particularly well. The 

 cherries are distinguished by the long stems, 

 whereby the fruits may be readily picked with- 

 out bruising. The history of the variety is 

 not definitely known, but it is supposed that 

 it was imported from Russia by H. A. Terry, 

 Crescent, Iowa. The variety has been grown 

 in Iowa for a quarter-century at least. 



Tree upright, vigorous, very hardy and very produc- 

 tive. Fruit early ; of medium size, round, flattened 

 laterally ; suture indistinct ; stem long, slender ; cavity 

 shallow ; skin tough, slightly astringent, deep red ; flesh 

 firm, subacid, colored ; stone small, round ; ripens at the 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station in June, as 

 early or a little earlier than Early Richmond. 



TIMME. P. Cerasus. Timme can hardly 

 be distinguished from Early Richmond, differ- 

 ing only in its smaller fruits. The trees of 

 Timme are more productive than those of 

 Early Richmond, but the greater fruitfulness 

 of the tree does not offset the smaller size of 

 the cherries. It is doubtful if this new strain 

 can displace the older Early Richmond, which 

 is well established in the favor of cherry- 

 growers everywhere. This variety is supposed 

 to have been brought to America from Ger- 



