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Sweet September Greenwood 
CHERRIES—Much in Demand 
There are few better fruits than the Cherries and very few fruits more easily grown. Up until the past few years, Cherries 
had not: been commercially grown in the East, but large canneries have been offering good prices for improved Cherries 
and more have been planted the past ten years than ever before. The new process of freezing and storing Cherries, thus 
preserving them for future sale, has also been an important factor in widening the market for Cherries, and growers are 
finding this a profitable fruit. 

Cherries are divided into two distinct types, the Sours and the Sweets. The Sours are more generally grown and hetter 
known in the South. The Sour varieties can be grown in almost any kind of soil that will grow Apples. They come into 
bearing when young and require little attention. The Large Montmorency and Early Richmond are the most popular of 
the Sour varieties. 
The Sweet varieties are not yet so well known in the South, but can be successfully grown in most of our Southern states. 
The Sweet varieties are the best commercially. Our Virginia Sweet Cherries are among the first to come on the market and 
always demand a fancy price. Gov. Wood (Wax), Napoleon (Wax), Black Tartarian, Lambert and Bing are the best known 
and most popular, but the Greenwood, which is commercially grown in Albemarle County, is demanding considerable atten- 
tion in other localities. 
We call your special attention to two new Sweet Cherries—the Seneca and Sweet September. 
SOUR CHERRIES 
EARLY RICHMOND (English Pie 
Cherry). An old time choice Sour va- 
riety, exceedingly productive and reli- 
able, with dark red fruits of medium 
size, sprightly acid flavor. Unsurpassed 
for cooking. June. 
LARGE MONTMORENCY. The larg- 
est and best of the Sour varieties, and 
the most extensively planted commer- 
cial variety. A Cherry of the Richmond 
class, but larger and more solid. An 
upright grower, hardy, heavy cropper. 
Ripens from seven to ten days later 
than the Richmond. 
SWEET CHERRIES 
BING. A popular commercial Sweet 
Cherry, originated in Oregon, but being 
replaced in Virginia by the Greenwood. 
Flesh very solid, flavor of the highest 
quality. 
BLACK TARTARIAN. One of the best 
Sweet Cherries. Purplish red Cherries 
of medium size and excellent quality. 
Trees are fruitful, healthy, and regular 
bearers. 
GOVERNOR WOOD (Wax). The early 
Wax Cherry. Light vellow; extremely 
sweet, juicy, rich flavor. Good size, 
finest quality. Tree vigorous and pro- 
ductive. A variety no home orchard 
should be without. 
LAMBERT. Large, dark purple, sweet, 
firm and rich. Prolific bearer, splendid 
quality. 
NAPOLEON (Wax). The large, late gol- 
den variety of fine appearance and the 
very largest size; yellow and amber with 
bright red blush; flesh firm, juicy, deli- 
cious. Profitable for a market variety; 
finds a ready sale both for canning and 
dessert. Forms a grand tree that ripens 
its heavy crops in June. 
New Varieties of 
Sweet Cherries 
GREENWOOD. Very large, dark purple. 
Firm and good shipper. Often tops the 
New York market. The Greenwood is 
extremely popularin Albemarle County, 
Virginia, where it is the leading com- 
mercial variety. Its one fault is that it 
will crack and rot during a wet season. 
SENECA. Introduced by the New York 
State Experiment Station, and de- 
scribed as follows by the New York 
State Fruit Testing Cooperative Asso- 
ciation: 
**Seneca is so remarkable in one 
character at least, earliness, that it is 
bound to be a great acquisition to Cher- 
ry growing. Its fruits ripen in the first 
weeks of June, more than two weeks 
earlier than Black Tartarian, the stan- 
dard early Cherry. The Cherries re- 
semble those of Black Tartarian in being 
large, 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 vigorous, 
productive, and has an upright-spread- 
ing growth. Seneca is one of the Sta- 
tion’s most notable additions to vari- 
eties of hardy fruits.” 

Sweet September 
(U.S. Plant Patent No. 94) 
THE AMAZING NEW 
FALL BEARING CHERRY 
Produces deliciously sweet bright 
red Cherries, which ripen from about 
September Ist until the snow flies. Ap- 
parently free from rot, leaf spot and 
curculio injury. 
The young trees start to yield some 
fruit the second or third year after 
planting and produce heavy annual 
crops thereafter. 
The fruits are an attractive medium 
dark red, and the quality is excellent 
for eating fresh and for canning. 
It is a remarkable fact that the 
criginal tree, which now stands about 
30 feet high and approximately the 
same measurement across, has pro- 
duced a crop year after year, even as 
high as 15 bushels as it did in 1932, 
with practically all fruits sound and 
perfect in every way, no worms, rot or 
leaf spot, without ever having been 
sprayed. 
Here is a fruit that every home 
owner should have in his dooryard to 
extend the season for sweet Cherries 
through the late Summer and Autumn. 
It will find ready sale on the Roadside 
Market and at a time when the market 
season is at its height and the fruits 
can be sold over a long period of time 
as they do not rot but hang on the 
tree until picked. 

