. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 958 Rural School Leaflet. TWO FRUIT TREES H. B. Knapp THE CHERRY THE cultivated cherry is not a native of this country; it came from southeastern Europe, where many of our fruits originated. There are many species of the cherry growing wild in the United States. A few of these give promise of being useful and valuable some day, but as yet they do no
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 958 Rural School Leaflet. TWO FRUIT TREES H. B. Knapp THE CHERRY THE cultivated cherry is not a native of this country; it came from southeastern Europe, where many of our fruits originated. There are many species of the cherry growing wild in the United States. A few of these give promise of being useful and valuable some day, but as yet they do not compare with those from the Old World. This fruit is steadily growing in importance. There are already a large number of cherry orchards in western New York and in other sections of the United States. The fruit is used chiefly for canning, and is a very delicious fruit for this purpose. Cherries may be divided into two groups — the sweet and the sour. The trees differ greatly in appearance and in habits of growth. The sweet cherries are large, vigorous, upright-growing trees with reddish brown bark, which separates in rings. The flowers appear at the same time as the leaves. The sour cherries are low-growing trees with spreading, bushy heads, much resembling in size and shape the head of the peach tree. The flowers appear before the leaves. It is the sour cherry that is chiefly grown on a commercial scale, although the sweet cherry is gaining in favor for this purpose. Both sweet and sour cherries are divided into groups, and these groups in turn are made up of different varieties. There are four distinct groups of sweet cherries: the Mazzards, which grow wild in eastern United States, not desirable in themselves but furnishing good stocks for other groups; the Hearts, large, soft, heart-shaped cherries, either light or dark in color, represented by the Black Tartarian and Governor Wood; the Bigarreaus, also heart-shaped, but very firm and meaty, the Napoleon Bigarreau bein
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