THE STONE FRUITS. 



The Cherry, Plum, Prune, Apricot, Peacli, and Nectarine are 

 classed together in Chapter XIY of Part I in discussing their history, 

 classification, propagation, and management, and their pruning is 

 discussed in Chapter XI, as tliey liave much in common in culture, 

 care, spraying, and propagation. Croujiing these fruits together 

 for description is also a more natural arrangement than the usual 

 alp)habetical order in which they are jjlaccd in American pomological 

 books. 



THE CHERRY. 



DEKE AND MORELLO VARIETIES. 



Amarelle Bunte. — Fruit large, round; stalk moderately long and 

 stout; cavity shallow; skin yellow, covered with fine red. Flesh 



Amarelle Hative. 



slightly colored, firm, tender, juicy, suliacid; slono larcc A'crv "-ood. 

 Season, second week in .June. Tree upright grower, foliage Inrsrc and 

 coarse. Does well in south Iowa and Jlissoiu'i. 



