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apex acute, base variable in shape; margin serrate, glandtilar; petiole one inch long, tinged 

 with dull red, glandless or with from one to three globose, yellow or brownish glands, 

 usually at the base of the blade. 



Buds usually pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and in small clusters 

 on short spiu-s; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, one 

 inch across; borne in scattering clusters, usually in threes; pedicels five-eighths inch long, 

 glabrous, green; calyx-tube tinged with red, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes with a trace 

 of red, long, broad, acute, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals obovate, 

 entire or slightly crenate, sessile, with a crenate apex; filaments one-fourth inch long; 

 pistil glabrous, equal to or longer than the stamens, often defective. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, oblate, compressed; 

 cavity wide, flaring; suture shallow; apex flattened or depressed; color dark red; dots 

 numerous, small, russet, somewhat conspicuous; stem thick, one inch long, adhering fairly 

 well to the fruit; skin thick, separating from the pulp; flesh whitish, showing distinctly 

 the fibers in the pulp, with abundant colorless or slightly tinged juice, tender and melting, 

 sprightly, pleasant flavored, tart; of very good quality; stone free, roimdish, plump, with 

 smooth surfaces, tinged with red. 



LATE DUKE 



Prunus avium X Prunus cerasus 



I. Pom. Mag. 1:45, PL 1828. 2. Land. Hort. Soc. Cat. 48, 49, 55, 56. 1831. 3. Prince Pom. 

 Man. 2:134, 135. 1832. 4. Hort. Reg. {Eng.) 1:257, fig- 1833. 5. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 191 fig. 

 80. 1845. 6. Mag. Hort. 13:397 fig. 33, 398. 1847. 7. Card. Chron. 556. 1848. 8. Hovey Fr. Am. 

 1:37. 38, PI. 1851. 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 74. 1862. 



Wahre EngUsche Kirsche. 10. Christ Handb. 682. 1797. 11. Christ Worterb. 284. 1802. 12. 

 Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 405-410. 1819. 13. Dochnahl Fuhr. Obstkunde 3:50. 1858. 14. III. 

 Handb. 499 fig., 500. 1861. 



Spate Herzogenkirsche. 15. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 434-437. 1819. 



Anglaise Tardive. 16. MortiUet Le Cerisier 2:179-181, fig. 48. 1866. 17. Mas Le Verger 8:67, 

 68, fig. 32. 1866-73. 



Late Duke is a variant of the well-known May Dtike, ripening from 

 two weeks to a month later. The size, color, flavor and season of the 

 fruit all commend it, as do the vigor, health and fruitfvilness of the trees. 

 The cherries are not quite as sweet as those of May Duke, a little more 

 marbled in color of skin and ripen through a longer season. The trees 

 are readily told from those of the earlier Dtike, being more open and spread- 

 ing, scanter of foHage, with slender branches and with fruit more thickly 

 clustered along the branchlets. Ripening in a season when hybrid varieties 

 are gone or rapidly going, Late Duke is a valuable acquisition in the home 

 orchard and for nearby markets to which tender-fleshed varieties can be 

 shipped. If those who want late cherries will plant this variety on a north- 

 ern slope, against a northern wall or where in any way shaded or in a cool 

 soil, these delicious cherries can be had until well toward August. The 



