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The varieties of sour cherries {Prunus cerasus) are 

 divided into two groups, the Duke and Morello. The 

 fruit of the former is borne on stout, round-headed 

 trees, is red or crimson in color and not very acid, 

 while with the latter, tree is small and with slender 

 weeping branches. The fruit is round, of a bright red 

 color and very acid. Figure 55 shows the characteristics 

 of the sour cherry tree. The following are among some 

 of the best varieties of each group: 



Heart — Gov. Wood, Black Tartarian, Downer's 

 Late and Windsor. 



Bigarreau — ^Yellow Spanish, Cleveland, Rockport 

 and Schmidt. 



Diike — May Duke, Eoyal Duke. 



Morello — Early Richmond, English Morello, Mont- 

 morency. 



The fruit is marketed in several ways. In some 

 places it is sold in the common quart strawberry box and 

 put into the bushel crate or carrier, in other localities 

 it is sold in the four or eight-pound grape basket, while 

 on the Pacific Coast it is shipped in small shallow boxes 

 holding two layers of large, finely-sorted fruit. As 

 grown in the East, where the fruit is likely to decay 

 quickly, the quart box is perhaps the best package unless 

 it is to go to canning factories, when the package is of 

 no great importance, so long as the fruit is delivered 

 in good condition and will keep until it is canned. 



See methods of propagation in Chapter XVIII, 

 and insects and fungous pests and their destruction in 

 Chapters XX and XXI. 



