140 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



It is possible that the term Du Nord originated through its being widely- 

 grown as an espalier demanding a northern exposvire, rather than as some 

 have thought, because it came from northern Germany. In 1862 English 

 MoreUo was put on the frmt list of the American Pomological Society 

 where it stiU remains. Wragg is thought to be identical with this cherry 

 by some and, if not, it differs but little. Northern Griotte and Grosse 

 Lange Lothkirsche, introduced by Budd from Russia, are English MoreUo. 

 Morris, or Colorado MoreUo, put out by John Morris of Golden, Colorado, 

 once thought to be distinct, is also English MoreUo. 



Tree small, upright-spreading, with drooping branchlets, dense-topped, productive; 

 trunk slender, rough; branches slender, smooth, dark brown overlaid with dark ash-gray, 

 with numerous small lenticels; branchlets slender, willowy, with short intemodes, brownish, 

 smooth, with numerous conspicuous, small, slightly raised lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, two and three-fourths inches long, one and one-half inches wide, 

 folded upward, obovate to oval; upper surface dark green, smooth; lower surface light 

 green; apex acute, base variable in shape; margin finely serrate, with small, dark glands; 

 petiole one-half inch long, tinged with dull red, grooved, with from one to three small, 

 globose or reniform, greenish-yellow glands at the base of the blade. 



Buds small, short, obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds; leaf -scars 

 obscure; season of bloom late; flowers one inch across, white; borne in scattering clusters 

 in twos and threes; pedicels nearly one inch long, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube with 

 a faint tinge of red, somewhat campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes with a trace of red, 

 obtuse, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals distinctly veined, rotmdish, 

 crenate, sessile, with crenate apex; filaments one-fourth of an inch long; pistil glabrous, 

 shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit matures very late; about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, sometimes running 

 larger, roundish-cordate, slightly compressed; cavity shallow, narrow, flaring, regular; 

 suture a shallow groove; apex roundish, with a small depression at the center; color very 

 dark red becoming almost black; dots numerous, small, dark russet, conspicuous; stem 

 slender, one inch long, adhering weU to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating from the 

 pulp; flesh dark red, with dark colored juice, tender and melting, sprightly, tart; of good 

 quality; stone free, small, ovate, slightly flattened and pointed, with smooth surfaces, 

 slightly tinged with red. 



FLORENCE 



Prunus avium 



I. Prince Treat. Horl. 29. 1828. 2. Kenrick Am. Orch. 277. 1832. 3. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 

 187. 1845. 4. Thomas Am. Fruit Cult. 365. 1849. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 22. 1885. 

 Knevett's Late Bigarreau. 6. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 46. 1831. 

 Bigarreau de Florence. 7. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:204 fig., 205. 1877. 

 Florence Heart. 8. Bunyard-Thomas Fr. Card. 43. 1904. 



Florence is a Bigarreau so similar to YeUow Spanish as to be hardly- 

 worth planting, since it is, aU and aU, surpassed by its better-known rival. 



