Re: [nafex] Governor Wood vs. Coe's Transparent

[Don Yellman <dyellman@earthlink.net>]

My gosh David, the papers are really slow to get to your place.  I guess that's
because you're out on the end of that little road.  Maybe that 1863 cherry
grower meant the Gov. Wood was slow to come into bearing.  That is certainly
true.   Mine took 4 year to start blooming, and another 3-4 years to begin to
set fruit.  After that, it has never failed, but it really started to bear when
the Stark Gold began blooming nearby.  One of these springs, say between May
15-30, you should jump in the pickup and come up to judge the beauty of the tree
and fruit for yourself.  It's now 20 years old, over 25 ft. tall, and healthy as
a horse.  Never heard of the Coe cherry, but I know there is a Coe College in
Iowa, the land of my origin.  Rgds, Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

"David A. Consolvo" wrote:

> Yesterday I just transplanted very happily my healthy Governor Wood sweet
> cherries grafted last year.  Donald Yellman had recommended them (thanks for
> the scionwood, Donald), and I was especially impressed by how early ripening
> he said they were.  But I just read in the New York Tribune of May 9, 1863:
>
> "I discarded my Governor Wood cherry because it did not mature as early as
> Coe's Transparent, nor grow such a beautiful fruit nor tree."
>
> Does anyone second the earliness and beauty of Coe's Transparent?  How is
> the taste, and does it crack?  I can't find a source of in on the web or in
> the Fruit, Nut and Berry Inventory.  Does anyone sell it?
>
> David Consolvo
> Hungrytown, Virginia
> Zone 7