[Transcriber's Note: Bold text denoted by equal signs. Italics denoted with underscores.] [Illustration: CHARLES DOWNING] 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_ PREFACE This is the fourth of the monographs on the fruits of temperate North America published by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. The nature and purposes of these treatises have been set forth in the prefaces of preceding volumes, but a summary of the purposes, with needed emphasis on several, is given for the convenience of all readers and the enlightenment of those who may not have the first three books.