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inches wide, long-oval to obovate, thick; upper surface dark green, smooth; lower surface 

 medium green, with a prominent midrib; apex taper-pointed, base acute; margin doubly 

 crenate, glandular; petiole one inch long, tinged with dull red, variable in thickness, Ughtly 

 pubescent, glandless or with from one to three large, raised, reniform glands on the 

 stalk. 



Buds small, short, variable in shape, free, arranged as lateral buds and on few, if any, 

 spurs; leaf -scars obscure; season of bloom late; flowers white, one inch across; borne in 

 a few scattering clusters, variable in number of flowers per cluster; pedicels one-half inch 

 long, thick, greenish; calyx-tube green or with a tinge of red, campanulate, glabrous; calyx- 

 lobes with a trace of red, obtuse, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals 

 roundish-oval, crenate, sessile, with a distinctly notched apex; filaments one-fourth inch 

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



Fruit matures in naid-season; over three-fourths of an inch in diameter, decidedly 

 oblate, irregular in outline, slightly compressed; cavity deep, wide, irregular, flaring; 

 sutvire very deep near the stem but shallow at the apex which is flattened or depressed; 

 color light to dark red; dots numerous, small, russet, inconspicuous; stem very thick, less 

 than three-fourths of an inch long, adhering strongly to the fruit; skin rather tender, 

 separating from the pulp; flesh pale yellow, with colorless juice, tender and melting, 

 ' sprightly, sotir; of fair quality; stone clinging along the ventral suttu'e, small, roundish, 

 plump, blunt, with smooth surfaces, faintly tinged with red; ventral suture very prominent. 



SKLANKA 



Prunus cerasus 



I. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 330. 1885. 2. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 327. 1888. 3. U. S. D. A. Pom. Rpt. 

 40, 41. 1895. 4- Del. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:116 fig. 6, 117. 1900. 5. la. Sta. Bui. 73:83 fig. 21, 84. 1903. 



Sklanka is evidently a cross between a cherry of the Amarelle group 

 and one of the Morellos — another indication of the frequency of hybrid- 

 ization in this fruit. The cherries of Sklanka have the light-colored skin 

 and juice of the Amarelles while the dwarfish, round-topped trees with 

 pendant branches and abtindant, small leaves are typical of the Morellos. 

 The variety is in no way remarkable unless it be in hardiness, the pomolo> 

 gists of the colder parts of the Mississippi Valley holding that it is one 

 of the hardiest of cherries. The fruit is not on a par with that of a score 

 of other Amarelles and the trees, in New York at least, are too small and 

 unproductive to be worth planting. The cherry has value, then, only 

 where hardiness is a prime requisite. 



Sklanka was imported to this country from Russia in 1883 by Pro- 

 fessor J. L. Budd of Ames, Iowa. Its parentage and origin are uncertain. 

 It does not seem to have been grown in continental Europe outside of 

 Russia but in certain sections of that country it is reported as being one 

 of the hardiest and most productive of the Sour Cherries. As grown in 



