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Flowers one and one-fourth inches across, white, well distributed, mostly in threes; 

 pedicels one inch long, thick, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, obconic, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes broad, obtuse, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals slightly obovate, 

 entire, broad, sUghtly notched at the apex; stamens one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, 

 equal in length to the stamens. 



Fruit matures in mid-season or later; nearly one inch in diameter, roundish-ovate; 

 cavity abrupt; suture very shallow to a mere line; apex flattened, depressed; color very 

 dark red; dots numerous, unusually small, obscure; stem one and one-fourth inches to 

 one and one-half inches long, adhering well to the fruit; flesh light red, with much wine- 

 colored juice, fine-grained, tender and melting, sour at first, becoming pleasantly tart 

 at full maturity; good in quality; stone separates readily from the flesh, small, rotmdish- 

 ovate, plump; ventral suture grooved; dorsal suture with a small ridge. 



LUTOVKA 



Prunus cerasus 



I. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 328. 1885. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 17. 1897. 3. Am. Pom. Sac. Sp. Rpt. 

 32, 33- 1904-05. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 27. 1909. 



Galopin. 5. Thoma.s Guide Prat. 21. 1876. 6. Kan. Sta. Bui. 73:189. 1897. 



For a time Lutovka and Galopin were listed as two distinct varieties. 

 Unquestionably they are the same despite the seeming difference in origin. 

 All we know of Galopin is that it was said to have been originated by a 

 nurseryman in Belgium whose name it bears. The Lutovka was introduced 

 into this country by J. L. Budd of Iowa, in 1883, and, according to the 

 introducer, was well known in Poland and Silesia as a roadside tree. Nothing 

 is said of it in foreign literature. As was the case with many of Budd's 

 importations, this variety did not stand the test of culture. It is a shy 

 bearer and is now seldom recommended, although it was placed on the 

 list of desirable fruits of the American Pomological Society in 1897 where 

 it stiU remains. The variety has no value in New York. In 1895, this 

 Station sent out buds which they had been led to believe were the Lutovka 

 and which they later found to be Brusseler Bratine. The following 

 description is compiled: 



Tree large, upright, slightly spreading; leaves large, ovate, leathery, produced from 

 short spurs along the main branches. 



Fruit ripens the forepart of July; medium to above in size, roundish-oblate; sutvire 

 often a line, sometimes lacking; stem short, stout, set in a large, deep cavity; skin dark, 

 clear red, thin, tough, translucent; flesh colorless, meaty, juicy, slightly acid; quality 

 good; pit large, roundish, free. 



