PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I CULTIVATED CHERRIES CHERRIES AND THEIR KINDRED
CHAPTER II THE HISTORY OF CULTIVATED CHERRIES THE ANCIENT USE OF CHERRIES
CHAPTER III CHERRY CULTURE
CHAPTER IV LEADING VARIETIES OF CHERRIES ABBESSE D'OIGNIES
CHAPTER V THE MINOR VARIETIES OF CHERRIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES, WITH ABBREVIATIONS USED
INDEX
FOOTNOTES
State of New York—Department of Agriculture
Twenty-second Annual Report—Vol. 2—Part II
THE
CHERRIES OF NEW YORK
BY
U. P. HEDRICK
ASSISTED BY
G. H. HOWE O. M. TAYLOR C. B. TUBERGEN R. WELLINGTON
Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1914
II
ALBANY
J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS
1915
NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION,
Geneva, N. Y., January 12, 1915
To the Honorable Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station:
Gentlemen:—I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscript copy for Part II of the 33d Annual Report of this Station. This contribution is the fourth monograph on the fruits of New York State, prepared under your direction by the Horticulturist of this institution and his associates.
The cherry, which this manuscript discusses, is undoubtedly most widely grown of the tree-fruits of the State; for within easy reach of every rural housewife—in orchard or garden, along roadside or lane—the "pie cherry" will be found; and many a lawn, even in village or city, is graced by the stately trees which bear the delicious Yellow Spanish or Black Tartarian. In many parts of the State, also, cherry growing is an industry of much commercial importance, with orchards exceeded in value by those of the apple and peach alone.
Because of its widespread popularity and commercial importance the cherry well merits treatment in this place in the series of monographs. It is hoped and believed that the growers and lovers of the fruit will appreciate and utilize to good advantage the result here presented of years of painstaking work by the authors. The discussions are based not alone on Station experience with hundreds of the thousand or more varieties described, but as well upon the collected observations of many cherry growers and the expressed judgments of the leading pomologists who have been interested in this fruit.
W. H. JORDAN,
Director
