Archive image from page 173 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 146 LAMBERT LARGE MONTMORENCY found in dooryards and home gardens in eastern United States as often as any other sweet cherry with the exception of Black Tartarian. The characters which give it popu- larity are chiefly those of its fruits, which are excellent in quality and handsome in ap- pearance. The cherries are of a glossy, dark purple color, and are uniform in color, shape, and size. Unfortunate- ly the fruits run small, leading to low yields. Knight, in size,
Archive image from page 173 of Cyclopedia of hardy fruits (1922). Cyclopedia of hardy fruits cyclopediaofhard00hedr Year: 1922 146 LAMBERT LARGE MONTMORENCY found in dooryards and home gardens in eastern United States as often as any other sweet cherry with the exception of Black Tartarian. The characters which give it popu- larity are chiefly those of its fruits, which are excellent in quality and handsome in ap- pearance. The cherries are of a glossy, dark purple color, and are uniform in color, shape, and size. Unfortunate- ly the fruits run small, leading to low yields. Knight, in size, color, and flavor of fruit is much like Black Tar- tarian, but the cherries are smaller and ripen earlier. The trees are about all that could be desired in a sweet cherry; these are char- acteristically marked by smooth bark dotted with large lenticels. This old variety has too many merits, especially for home grounds, to be wholly forgotten. Knight came from T. A. Knight, Downton Castle, Wiltshire, Eng- land, about 1810. 127. Knight Early Black. (XI) Tree of medium size, upright-spreading, open-topped, very productive. Leaves numerous, 5 inches long, 2 inches wide, long-oval, thin; margin doubly serrate; petiole 2 inches long with 2 or 3 large, reniform, red- dish glands. Flowers midseason, white, IV inches across; borne in dense clusters, usually in twos. Fruit earlv ; inch in diameter, conical ; cavity wide, rather abrupt; suture indistinct; apex flattened, with a small depression at the cen- ter : color dark reddish- black, obscurely mot- tled ; dots numerous, email, russet, obscure; 6tem slender, 1 in- ches long, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating from the pulp; flesh dark red. with dark- colored juice, tender, meaty, mild, sweet; of good quality; stone free, small, round- ovate, with smooth sur- faces. LAMBERT. Fig. 128. P arinm. In appearance, the fruits of Lambert are like those of Black Heart, hav- ing much the same shape and color, but large
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