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This variety originated with David Roberts, Salem, Massachusetts, and was first 

 brought to notice by Robert Manning. Fruit of medium size, rotmdish-cordate, slightly 

 obtuse; suture distinct; stem long, slender, set in a moderate cavity; skin pale amber over- 

 spread with pale red, mottled with deeper red and pale amber specks; flesh white, tender, 

 juicy, sweet, sprightly ; season at the end of July. 

 Rochaline. P avium, i. Leonard Coates Cat. lo. igii. 



Rochaline, a seedling of Napoleon, is no longer propagated, being inferior to its parent. 

 Rock. Species? i. Ray Hist. Plant. 1539. 1688. 2. MiileT Card. Diet. 1:1754. 



Mentioned as a perfumed cherry. 

 Rockland. Species? i. Mass. (Hatch) Sta. An. Rpt. 1:33. 1889. 



Mentioned as growing at the Massachusetts Station. 

 Rocky Hill Honey Heart. P. avium, i. Mag. Hort. 13:424. 1847. 



A variety originating near Wethersfield, Connecticut, late in the Eighteenth Century. 

 Rocky Mountain. P besseyi. i. Country Gent. 26:238. 1865. 2. Rural N. Y. 52:138, 

 330, fig. 46. 1893. 3- Cornell Sta. Bui. 70:261, PI. i fig. 2. 1894. 4. Storrs & 

 Harrison Cat. 136 fig. 1896. 5. Wis. Sta. An. Rpt. 13:229, 230. 1896. 



Rocky Mountain, a variety of Prunus besseyi, is a native of the mountains of Colorado 

 having been discovered there many years ago. It is chiefly used as a dwarf ornamental, 

 being adapted to a great variety of soils. Tree small, bushy, averaging about four feet 

 high, very hardy and productive; fruit ripens after all other cherries are gone, small, variable 

 in shape, from roundish to nearly oblong; color almost jet black; flavor sweet with some 

 astringency but edible when fully mature. 

 Roe. P- avium, i. Better Fruit 5:^0. 11:49. 1911- 



Roe is a seedling from Yamhill County, Oregon, being introduced by the Oregon Nur- 

 sery Company, Salem, Oregon; it is said to resemble Napoleon but is much firmer and later. 

 Romaine. Species? i. Thomas Guide Prat. 26. 1876. 



A variety of doubtful value; ripens in July. 

 Ronald. Species? i. Bunyard-Thomas Fr. Card. 44. 1904. 



According to the reference, this is a valuable late variety. Tree small, compact; 

 fruit very large, bright red, transparent; flesh yellowish, tender, juicy. 

 Roschers Kirsche. P. cerasus. i. III. Handb. 1 fig., 2. 1867. 2. Mas Pom. Gen. 11 :g, 

 10, fig. 5. 1882. 



A chance seedUng found by a peasant, Roschers, near Heidelberg, Baden, Germany. 

 Fruit mediirai, oblate-cordate; sides compressed, angular; stem long; cavity wide, deep; 

 skin tough, black; flesh dark red, juicy, vinous; pit small, oval; ripens very early. 

 Rose Channeux. Species? 1. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 75. 1883. 



A Polish variety introduced by Professor J. L. Budd, Ames, Iowa; fruit large, red, 

 delicate, watery and mild-flavored. 



Rosenobel. P- avium, i. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 280, 678. 1819. 2. Dochnahl 

 Fuhr. Obstkunde y.2T. 1858. 



An old German variety fruiting for the first time in 1815. Fruit large, obtuse-cordate, 

 yellow, streaked with red around the cavity; stem long; flesh white, tender, sweet; stone 

 oval; ripens the last of Jime. 



