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THE LOVETT COMPANY, LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 



CHERRIES, 



Plant Hearts and Bigarreaus 20 feet apart each icay, and Dukes and Morellos 12 to 15 ft. 



Cherries will not succeed on wet soil. The class Hearts and Bigarreaus or "sweet cherries" are even more 

 unlike the class Dukes or Morellos or "sour cherries*" in habit of tree and growth than in fruit. The trees of the 

 sweet class are to be preferred for shade, for which purpose they are excellent. 



First Class, each 25c; doz., $2.50; 100, S12.00. Too large to mail. 



\ HEARTS AND BIGARREAUS. DUKES AND MORELLOS, 



Black Eagle. Large: flesh purplish-crimson, tender, 

 rich, reliable. Midseason. 



Btack Tartarian. Large: juicy, rich, mild and sweet; 

 ^-Igorous and productive. Early. One of the most 

 productive and valuable. 



Coe's Transparent. Medium : pale amber, beautifully 

 mottled; very tender, sweet, juicy, very valuable, pop- 

 ular ; one of the best. Early. 



. GoVo Wood. Large; yellow shaded with light red; 

 juicj', very delicious. A vigorous grower. Early. 



Luelling'. One of the finest of cherries. Extremely 

 large; black, very solid, and of the highest quality. 

 Very valuable. Midseason. 



Napoleon. Very large; pale yellow and red; fli-m, 

 sweet and profitable. A magnificent cherry and vigor- 

 ous grower. Midseason. 



Rockport. Large; clear red shaded with pale amber; 

 fii'ni, juicy, sweet, excellent. Early. 



Yellow Spanish. Very large; yellowish- white, tinted 

 rose; juicy, rich, sweet; very popular. Midseason. 



V Dye House. Medium; juicy, excellent. An early and 

 ^ regular bearer. Early . 



Early Richmond (Early May, Kentish, Pie Cherry). 

 Medium, red; juicj-, acid, popular. Very prf^ductive. 



Eng°lish I^Iorello. Large; dark red. nearly black; flesh 

 dark, juicy, rich, acid; productive and profitable. Late. 



Late Duke. Large: rich: dark red when ripe; flesh 

 pale amber: sub-acid; fijie. Late. 



- Louis Phiilippe. Mediiun. roimdish: rich, dark' purp- 

 lish-red; flesh red; juicy, mild, sub-acid. Said to do 

 finely at the "West. Late. 



V i^ay Duke. Large ; dark red, nearly black when ripe, 

 melting, rich, juicy, excellent ; popular, reliable. Early. 



l^ontmorency Ordinaire. Large; bright red; acid; 

 larger and later than Early Richmond. 



Olivet. Large; deep red; tender, rich, vinous. A 

 choice variety of French origin. Early. 



Ostheim.^ Large; red, when fully ripe a dark red; 

 tender, juicy, pleasant. Tree exceedingly hardy; a 

 vigorous grower and productive. A German variety. 



PLYMOUTH ROCK. 



(Shown in Colors Upon Front Cover). 



All growers of light colored or so-called amber cherries 

 are well aware of the two greatest difliculties encountered, 

 viz : the birds taking the fruit and the tendency to quick 

 decay when ripe. So serious are these misfortunes that we 

 know of a fruit grower who cut down a long row of amber 

 ^f f^"^^^"^^ cherry trees in their prime, because the birds would leave 



him practically no fruit; while Velio w Spanish, Coe's 

 Transparent and like varieties, excellent as regards beauty, 

 quality and size of fruit, and habit, vigor and productive- 

 ness of tree, are rapidly becoming unpopular, from the one 

 fact that their fmit is so perishable. 

 Our attention was called to the Plymouth Rock Cherry 

 f five years ago, by an amateur fruit grower of wide experi- 

 f - ence and unusual discernment, who informed us that the 



' fruit, though showy and of excellent quality, would remain 



upon the tree when ripe, or after gathered, in perfect qoxx- 

 (\ition longer than any other variety he Jiad ever seen, al- 

 - ,/\ though an amber variety ; and for some unknown reason 



V ^ , ^ its fruit icas never molested by birds. TTe heard ti^is 

 ' =5^^^ statement with much doubt but visited the gentleman and 



^ to our unbounded joy and surprise formd the original tree 



and others grown from it, heavily laden with large, bright 

 amber, largely overspread with carmine, cherries in per- 

 fect condition although the fi-uit had been ripe for ten 

 days; during which time it had rained almost every day and the iceather e.ccessively hot. Upon testing the 

 fruit freelv we found it of not oulv exceUent but high quality— sweet, rich, sprightly, juicy and tender— and with 

 small stone. TTe gathered a quantity, which we carried some two hundi'ed miles aixd it kept perfectly with no 

 care whatever for a iveek. As to the birds ; although the trees of all other varieties in the grounds where the trees 

 of Plvmouth Rock stood, had oeen stripped of fruit, we could detect no evidence of a single cherry of the Rly- 

 mouth Rock having been taken by a bird. The birds avoided the trees of it, for some reason as yet unexplained. 

 The ti^ee of this variety is a good healthy grower, begins bearing young and is a heavy annual bearer. 



As a desirable fruit for the home grounds we are confident it is \vithout an equal; but its greatest value is for 

 market growing— for there is nothing in the way of cherries that can be compared with it as a variety for profit. 



Price. 1st c. ea.. 7.5c: 3 for 82. 0: doz., 87.00; 100, BoO.OO. Medium, ea., 50c; 3 for 81.25: doz., -Si.oO: loO, 835.00. 

 1 yr., ea., 35c; 3 for $1.00; doz., 83.50 [by mail) ; 1000, §25.00. 



