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Title: Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Fruit-culture Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
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varieties of cherries under test at Maplehurst is 62, and the different habitsof growth are an interesting study. For example, Fig. 3 shows a Morello tree, a good type of thehabit also of the Kentish cherries, for these differ from each other more in fruit than in tree ;this class of trees forms a round head with slender branches, and never attains much height.These five-year-old trees are only about nine feet in height and three inches in diameter oftrunk. The Montmorency is a great lavorite as a market cherry in New York State, and cer-tainly is a productive kind of pie cherry, far less subject to curculio than the old common red.It ripens about the 1st of July, while the early Richmond can be used for pies about the middleof June. For pies, the Early Richmond, Montmorency and Wragg or English Morello, wouldcover the season completely. Figs. 4 and 5 shows the bearing habit of the Empress Eugenieand of the May Duke, two varieties of Dukes which so nearly resemble each other that they
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Fig. 3. Morello Tree. are not easily distinguished. Both bear in thick clusters all along the branches, and their mildacid makes them more desirable for pies than the Kentish varieties, at least to the taste ofmany people. They have one fault, viz., that of uneven ripening, often showing very greensamples and very ripe ones on the same bunch. The Duke cherries may well be classed separ-ately from all others, and Fig. 6 shows a good type of the tree. This is a May Duke in ourexperimental plot, but the Royal Duke, Late Duke and the Empress Eugenie are so similar inhabit that one tree will represent them all. They grow upright and attain a considerable heightwith little spread of branches. The leaves hang down in somewhat fastigiate habit, and thefruit is borne all along the branches, well hidden among the leaves. The Reine Hortense isby far the finest Duke, but it is so different in habit and so immensely superior in size andappearance to the others named, that it cannot be called a typ

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