1 82 THE CHERRIES OF NEW YORK 



alone beginning in its catalog of 1875 but in 1909 the catalog contained 

 the two names, Republican and Lewelling. Inasmuch as the consensus 

 of opinion is that both names apply to a single cherry this Station has 

 decided to list Republican only. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, very productive; trunk thick, 

 somewhat shaggy; branches stout, roughened, brown covered with ash-gray, with large, 

 raised lenticels; branchlets stout, with long intemodes, brown nearly overspread with ash- 

 gray, smooth except near the base, with a few small, raised, inconspicuous lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, five inches long, two and five-eighths inches wide, folded upward, 

 obovate to oval, thin; upper stuface dark green, smooth; lower stirface slightly hairy; 

 apex acute, base abrupt; margin coarsely and doubly serrate, glandular; petiole one and 

 one-fourth inches long, thick, tinged with dull red, with two or three large, reniform, light 

 green or reddish glands on the stalk. 



Buds pointed or obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly on the branchlets, or in small 

 clusters on spurs of mediimi length; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, one 

 and one-half inches across; borne in scattering clusters in ones and twos; pedicels variable 

 in length, averaging one inch long, characteristically thick, glabrous; calyx-tube tinged 

 with red, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes variable in width, tinged with red, long- 

 obovate to acute, finely serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals obovate, 

 entire, with short, blunt claws, with shallow, notched apex; filaments five-sixteenths of 

 an inch long; pistU glabrous, equal to the stamens in length, often defective. 



Fruit matures late; about one inch in diameter, wide, variable in shape, cordate or 

 roundish-cordate, compressed, with angular and tmeven surfaces; cavity deep, wide, flaring; 

 suture a shallow groove, often extending around the fruit; apex with a small depression 

 at the center; color purplish-black; dots numerous, small, dark russet, inconspicuous; 

 stem thick, one and one-eighth inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin thin; flesh purplish- 

 red, with dark colored juice, tender, meaty, crisp, mild, sweet or with slight astringency 

 before fuUy mature; of good quality; stone semi-free, small, ovate, flattened, rather blimt, 

 with smooth surfaces. 



ROCKPORT 



Prunus avium 



1. Horticulturist 2: 5^ fig., 60. 1847-48. 2. Elliott T^'r. Boofe 201, 202 fig. 1854. 3. Hooper W'. Fr. 

 500*270,271. 1857. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 7^. 1862. s- Mortillet Le Cemier 2: 131. 1866. 6. Ober- 

 dieck Obst-Sort. 372. 1881. 



Rockport is of very doubtful commercial value and has too many 

 faults to be included with the best sweet sorts for a home orchard. It 

 is more easily characterized by its faults than its merits. Compared 

 with the well-known Yellow Spanish, of which it is a seedling and to which 

 it is similar, the cherries are smaller and the pits are larger than those of 

 the parent variety,— quite too large for the amotmt of pulp. Worst of 

 the faults of the variety is, however, that the cherries are not sufficiently 



