_Ratafia Griotte._ =14.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:147. 1832. =15.= Poiteau _Pom. Franc._ =2=: No. 17, Pl. 1846. =16.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =5=:299, 300 fig., 301. 1877. _Northern Griotte._ =17.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:146. 1832. 18. Poiteau _Pom. Franc._ =2=: No. 18, Pl. 1846. =19.= Mortillet _Le Cerisier_ =2=:188 fig. 189, 190. 1866. =20.= _Pom. France_ =7=: No. 15, Pl. 15. 1871. =21.= Thomas _Guide Prat._ 18, 195. 1876. =22.= _Ia. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 331. 1885. _Colorado Morello._ =23.= Rogers _Cat._ 18. 1900. English Morello is the best of all its group and is the standard late Sour Cherry in North America, occupying at the close of the season the place held by Montmorency in mid-season for home, market and cannery. It is not a table fruit and can hardly be eaten out of hand until it loses some of its astringency and acidity by thorough ripening. In any way the cherries are prepared by cooking, however, it is one of the best, culinary processes giving the fruits a rich, dark wine color, very attractive in appearance, and a most pleasant, sprightly, aromatic flavor. The fruit is handsome in appearance, bears harvesting and shipping well, is resistant to brown-rot and hangs long on the trees after ripening, often until the last of August if robins can be kept away. Once seen, one may always know the trees. They are small, round-headed, with branches that distinctly droop. To be sufficiently productive an English Morello orchard must be closely set; for, though the trees are vigorous and productive for their size, they are too dwarf to yield heavily. The trees are hardy but not always healthy and are not adapted to as great a diversity of soils as might be wished. The variety distinctly fails in its tree-characters. The demand for English Morello has recently decreased and it is doubtful if it ever regains its popularity of a decade ago. There is a place for a late cherry which English Morello now fills but not sufficiently well.