174 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



NOUVELLE ROYALE 



Prunus avium X Prunus cerasus 



1. Flor. & Pom. 72, PI. 1862. 2. Card. Mon. 7:248. 1865. 3. Hogg Fruit Man. 70, 88. 1866. 

 4. Mas Le Verger 8:147, 148. fig- 72. 1866-73. 5- Downing Fr. Trees Am. 484. 1869. 6. Am. Pom. 

 Sac. Rpt. 31. 1875. 7. Gaucher Pom. Prak. Obst. No. 80, Tab. 33. 1894. 8. Guide Prat. 9. 1895. 



If this cherry were to be judged by its behavior on the grounds of this 

 Station, it would be called one of the best of the hybrid Dtikes. In par- 

 tictilar, it would be commended by its product, the trees not making as good 

 a showing as the fruit. The cherries are distinguished by their large size, 

 dark red color, glossy surface, good quality, lateness in mattuity and, 

 even more particularly, sweetness, keeping in mind that the variety is a 

 hybrid and not a true Sweet Cherry. The shape, too, offers a distin- 

 guishing character, the fruits being more oblate than in any other Duke. 

 The long, stout stem is still another characteristic. Unfortunately the 

 tree, while satisfactory in all other respects, is unproductive — a fatal fault in 

 these days of commercial fruit-growing. Nouvelle Royale is not widely known 

 in America and may well be given trial by those who want a late Duke. 



This variety is supposed from its fniit- and tree-characters to be a hybrid 

 between Early Richmond and May Duke but where, how and when it 

 came to light is not known. Downing, in 1869, mentions the Nouvelle 

 Royale as having recently been introduced into this country and it was 

 noted in the Report of the American Pomological Society for 1875 but 

 has never received a place upon the Society's fruit catalog list. 



Tree large, vigorotis, upright, compact, moderately productive; trunk of medium 

 size; branches upright, thickish; branchlets slender, long, brown partly covered with ash- 

 gray, with very numerous conspicuous, raised lenticels. 



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

 obovate; upper surface dark green, glossy, rugose; lower surface light green, lightly 

 pubescent; apex abruptly pointed, base acute; margin finely and doubly serrate, glandular; 

 petiole one and one-fourth inches long, slender, tinged with duU red, grooved and with 

 few hairs along the upper surface, glandless or with from one to four globose, greenish- 

 yellow or reddish glands variable in size usually at the base of the blade. 



Buds small, short, obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and on short spurs 

 in clusters variable in size; leaf -scars obscure; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, 

 one inch across; borne in dense clusters in threes and fours; pedicels three-fourths of an 

 inch long, slender, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube with a tinge of red, obconic, glabrous; 

 calyx-lobes somewhat reddish, broad, acute, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; 

 petals roundish, entire, nearly sessile, apex entire; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil 

 glabrous, longer than the stamens. 



