. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. SCHMIDT SKLANKA 153 and are more oblate. The trees are markedly upright and the foliage is dense. The va- riety has a place in home orchards and for local markets. The origin of this variety is unknown, but it dates back at least a century and a half in Europe. According to Downing, it was brought to America in the first half of the nineteenth century. Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright, vasiform, un- productive. Leaves numerous, 4^ inches long, 2 inches wide, obovate; margin serrate or crenate; petiole 1 ^ inches long, glandless or with
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. SCHMIDT SKLANKA 153 and are more oblate. The trees are markedly upright and the foliage is dense. The va- riety has a place in home orchards and for local markets. The origin of this variety is unknown, but it dates back at least a century and a half in Europe. According to Downing, it was brought to America in the first half of the nineteenth century. Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright, vasiform, un- productive. Leaves numerous, 4^ inches long, 2 inches wide, obovate; margin serrate or crenate; petiole 1 ^ inches long, glandless or with 1 or 2 small, reniform, greenish-yellow or reddish glands. Flowers midseason; white, 1 inch across; borne in very dense clusters, closely grouped in fours and fives. Fruit early ; %, inch in diameter, oblate, compressed; color bright red be- coming darker at maturity; dots few, small, obscure; stem 1^ inches long, adhering to the fruit; skin thin, tough, separating from the pulp; flesh pale yellowish- white with tinge of red, pink juice, tender, sprightly, pleasantly acid; good to very good in quality; stone semi-free, small, ovate, slightly flattened, with smooth surfaces. SCHMIDT. Fig. 140. P. avium. Schmidt's Bigarreau. Schmidt is not new nor little known, since it has been rather widely planted in America for many years. Yet it is not re- ceiving the atten- tion that it de- serves from com- mercial cherry- growers, being relegated to the rear of a dozen kinds when it should be in the front rank. The characters which entitle it to a high place as a money-maker are: the fruits are large, being unsurpassed in size by any other black cherry; they are round and plump in form and glossy black in color; the flesh is dark ruby-red un- der the skin, which makes the cherry as pleasing in- wardly as out- wardly ; and the cherries are free from brown-rot, in this respect excel- ling any other market sort. The trees are vigorous, healthy, productive, and charac- terized by abundant, lar
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