Fruit Varieties and Horticultural Digest (J Fruit Var & Hort Digest)
Volume 15 Number 1 Article 16 Pages: 19-19
Year 1960 Month 9
Title: New English Sweet Cherries
Author: APS Citation
Abstract:
Of the sweet cherries now being
recommended to British growers by
Mr.
Norman Stewart, Head, Department
of Horticulture, Kent Farm Institute,
Borden, England, are three
varieties originated at the John Innes
Institution.
They are as follows:
Merton Favorite: ripens its redmahogany
fruit first week of July.
It
has a good habit of growth, with many
laterals, and bears well.
Merton Bigarreau: ripens second
week of July.
Bears heavy crops of
beautiful mahogany fruit of fine
flavor.
Fruit stems are very short.
Merton Glory: harvested first or
second week of July.
An attractive
light cherry that may prove useful for
processing.
