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thrifty grower, healthy, and productive. It is a choicely good cherry for 
home and roadside trade. 
Royal Duke—has long been grown in Europe to follow May Duke. The trees 
are hardy, healthy, and productive. The cherries are large, handsome, dark 
red, well scattered along the branches, pleasantly flavored, refreshing, and 
very good in quality. Royal Duke has a place in home orchards for road- 
side and local markets—everyone likes a Duke. 
Schrecken Bigarreau—resembles Early Rivers but is a little later in season 
and has a longer stem and a more oval stone. It is a large heart-shaped, 
glossy black cherry, handsome in appearance. The flesh is melting but 
firmer than the early-ripening sweets, moderately sweet, and full of aro- 
matic dark-colored juice. The season approximates that of Black Tartarian 
but the larger size of the fruit and the firmer flesh make the variety much 
more valuable than Black Tartarian. The tree is vigorous and productive. 
Seneca—is so remarkable in one character at least, earliness, that it is bound 
to be a great acquisition to cherry growing. Its fruits ripen in the first 
weeks of June, more than 2 weeks earlier than Black Tartarian, the stand- 
ard early cherry. The cherries resemble those of Black Tartarian in being 
round-cordate, purple-black, with juicy, melting flesh, and a rich, sweet 
flavor. The pit is free and the skin does not crack. The tree is very vigor- 
ous, productive, and has an upright-spreading growth, 
Sodus—a sister of Gil Peck and deserves as conspicuous a place in the class 
of light-colored, firm-fleshed sweet cherries as Gil Peck does among the 
dark-colored sorts. Sodus is the best of all the light-colored seedlings 
which have yet originated on the grounds of the Experiment Station. It 
is as large as Victor which it resembles but ripens a little earlier and is | 
a little firmer. In quality it is one of the best. The tree is vigorous, healthy, 
and productive. 
Victor—originated in 1916 at the Horticultural Experiment Station at Vine- 
land, Ontario. The fruit resembles that of Napoleon and ripens midway 
between Napoleon and Governor Wood. The cherries are large, medium 
firm-fleshed, light-colored and of excellent quality. The tree is large, vig- 
orous, and productive. Victor is a splendid new sweet cherry which every- 
body will like. 
Vernon (Vineland 160133)—originated at the Horticultural Experiment 
Station at Vineland, Ontario, as “An open-fertilized seedling of Windsor. 
Fruit large, firm-fleshed, same color as Windsor. Tree vigorous, produc- 
tive; season of Windsor”. 
NECTARINES 
A nectarine is a smooth-skinned peach, a sport of the peach. To those who 
object to the fuzzy skin of a peach the nectarine is pleasing. The flavor of the 
sport is distinctive and most agreeable. Nectarines add variety and charm to 
the list of hardy fruits. All that is needed to make them as popular as peaches 
is a greater number of varieties adapted to American conditions. 
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