THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK I4I 



The fruit hangs on the tree in edible condition an almost phenomenal length 

 of time which has given rise to much divergence of opinion as to its season, 

 some pomologists rating it as early, others as mid-season and still others 

 as late. At Geneva the trees of this variety are not as healthftil, vigorous 

 or as fruitful as those of Yellow Spanish, with which it must compete, 

 nor are the cherries quite as fine in appearance or quality. 



This variety was found in Florence, Italy, early in the Nineteenth 

 Centtuy by John Houblon, who took it to England from whence it was 

 brought to America. It found a place in 1885 on the fruit list of the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society where it remained until 1891, when it was 

 discarded, with quite sufficient reason. 



Tree vigorous, upright, open-topped, productive; trunk and branches thick, smooth; 

 branches reddish-brown partly overspread with ash-gray, with numerous lenticels; branch- 

 lets thick, long, brown partly covered with ash-gray, smooth, with inconspicuous, raised 

 lenticels. 



Leaves munerous, variable in size, averaging four and one-fourth inches long, two 

 and one-fourth inches wide, folded upward, long-oval to obovate, thin; upper surface 

 rather dark green, rugose; lower surface dull light green, thinly pubescent; apex acute, 

 base abrupt; margin coarsely and doubly serrate, glandular; petiole one and three-fourths 

 inches long, thick, pubescent, dull red, with from two to fotu- large, reniform, reddish 

 glands on the stalk. 



Buds pointed, plump, free, arranged as lateral buds and grouped in large clusters 

 on numerous short spurs ; season of bloom intermediate ; flowers one and one-fourth inches 

 across, white; borne in dense clusters in twos and threes; pedicels three-fourths of an inch 

 long, slender, glabrous, greenish; calyic-tube green, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes greenish, 

 acute, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals broad-obovate to oval, entire, with 

 very short, blunt claws, distinctly notched at the apex; filaments nearly one-half inch long; 

 pistil glabrous, usually shorter than the stamens. 



Fruit matures early; one inch in diameter, cordate, compressed; cavity deep, wide; 

 suture very shallow; apex somewhat pointed; color reddish over an amber background, 

 marked with indistinct, whitish spots and streaks; dots numerous, small, whitish, incon- 

 spicuous; stem one and one-half inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin thin, separating 

 from the pulp; flesh yellowish- white, with colorless juice, tender, meaty, crisp, sprightly, 

 sweet; of very good quality; stone clinging, cordate, flattened, blunt, with roughish 

 surfaces; enlarged along the ventral suture. 



GEORGE GLASS 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 328, 329. 1888. 2. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 79. 1890. 3. Mich. Hort. Soc. 

 Rpt. 245. 1894. 4. la. Sta. Bill. 31:541. 1895. 5. Del. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:125. 1900. 6. Budd-Hansen 

 Am. Hort. Man. 2:276, 277. 1903. 7. la. Sta. Bui. 73:70. 1903. 



