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Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense, productive; trunk and branches stocky, 

 brown overlaid with dark gray; branchlets with many, small conspicuous lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, three and one-half inches long, two inches wide, obovate to oval, 

 thickish; upper surface dark green, slightly rugose; lower surface finely pubescent; apex 

 abruptly pointed, base variable in shape; margin finely serrate, with small, dark glands; 

 petiole one inch long, tinged with dull red, .grooved on the upper surface and with a few 

 hairs, glandless or with one or two small, reniform, greenish glands usually at the base 

 of the leaf. 



Buds obtuse or conical, plump, free, arranged as lateral buds or in rather dense 

 clusters on short spurs; leaf-scars obscure; season of bloom late; flowers white, one inch 

 across, wide open; borne in dense clusters on short spurs, usually in threes or fours; pedicels 

 one inch long, slender, glabrous, light green; calyx-tube greenish, campanulate, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes, broadly and shallowly dentate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals 

 obovate, entire, with very short claws, indented at the apex; filaments one-fourth inch 

 long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures late; nearly one inch in diameter, cordate; cavity rather deep; suture 

 very shallow; color pale red changing to bright red; dots numerous, small, russet, con- 

 spicuous; stem one and one-fourth inches long; skin thick, tough, adherent to the pulp; 

 flesh whitish, with abtmdant colorless juice, fine-grained, meaty but tender, pleasantly 

 tart, sprightly; very good in quality; stone free, small, oval, plump, slightly pointed, with 

 smooth surfaces; slightly notched near the base of the ventral suture. 



MAY DUKE 



Prunus avium X Prunus cerasus 



1. Bradley Cord. 211. 1739. 2. Duhamel Troii. vlrft. Fr. 1 : 194. 1768. 3. Prince Pom. Man. 2:133, 

 134. 1832. 4. Card. Chron. 57. 1843. 5. Cultivator N. S. 2:319 fig. 93. 1845. 6. Downing Fr. Treei 

 Am. 191, 192 fig. 81. 1845. 7. Bridgeman Gard. Ass't Pt. 3: 53, 54. 1847. 8. Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr. 

 52. 1848. 9. Elliott Fr. Book 211. 1854. 10. Mcintosh Bk. Gard. 2:542, 543. 1855. 11. Mas Le 

 Verger 8:133, 134, fig. 65. 1866-73. 12- Hogg Fruit Man. 305, 306. 1884. 13. Guide Prat. 8, 195, 

 196. 1895. 



Duke Cherry. 14. Ray Hist. Plant. 2:1540. 1688. 



May Cherry. 15. Miller Gard. Diet. 1:1754. 16. Mortillet Le Cerisier 2:138-140, fig. 33. 1866. 



Rothe Maikirsche. 17. Christ Handb. 669. 1797. 18. Christ Worterh. 282. 1802. 19. Truchsess- 

 Heim Kirschensort. 377-389- i8i9- 20. III. Handb. 151 fig., 152. i860. 21. Mas Le Verger 8:135, 

 136, fig. 66. 1866-73. 22. Lauche Deut. Pom. HI: No. 16, PI. 1882. 23. Mathieu Nam. Pom. 374. 

 1889. 



Royale Hative. 24. Poiteau Pom. Franc. 2: Nos. 23, 24, PI. 1846. 25. Pom. Prance 7: No. 4, 

 PI. 4. 1871. 26. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:389 fig., 390, 391. 1877. 



Royale Cherry Duke. 27. Mas Pom. Gen. 11:127, 128, fig. 64. 1882. 



Esel Kirsche. 28. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 22. 1892-93. 



Anglaise Hative. 29. Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom. 78 fig., 79. 1904. 



May Duke is one of the oldest and, the world over, one of the most 

 popular cherries. There are several reasons why it has attained and holds 

 its popularity. It is finely flavored, especially when prepared for the table, 



