Experience with Sweet Cherry Varieties

Abstract

The sweet cherry is particularly sensitive to its location, even to its place on the individual farm. This fact, and the need of new and better varieties to compete in the commercial markets, have narrowly limited the growing of sweet cherries in New York State. Fifty years ago most villagers had a tree or two in their back yards, and many farms had a dozen or more sweet cherries planted along the stone fences. This has all passed, and we seldom hear of such old varieties as Coe’s Transparent, Governor Wood, Black Eagle, Downers Late Red or Yellow Spanish.