Identifier: annualreportofbo3311newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. Board of Control
Subjects: New York State Agricultural Experiment Station Agriculture
Publisher: Geneva, N.Y. New York Agricultural Experiment Station under authority of Cornell University
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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spicuous;skin thin, tough, adherent; flesh yellow, faintly red at the pit, fine, tender, slightlyfibrous, rich, sweet, spicy; very good; stone free. CHERRY. Abbesse dOignies has so many good characters that it is well worth trying commercially wherever cherries are grown in theUnited States. Curiously enough, it seems so far to have been triedonly in the Middle West, Professor Budd having introduced it inIowa from Russia in 1883. It grew in the Mississippi Valley, ifwe may judge from the accounts of it, as well as any cherry of itsclass in the unfavorable soil and climatic conditions of that region.We do not know of its having been tried elsewhere in the East thanon our grounds and here we find it, in competition with practicallyall of the varieties of its class, one of the best of the Dukes. Thetrees are vigorous, hardy, fruitful. The cherries are large, darkred, of most excellent quality, combining the flavor of the Dukeswith a firmer and yet tenderer flesh than the Montmorency. The
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EDGEMONT ABBESSE DOIGNIES

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