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Type = Cherry. Per The American Fruit Culturist (see citation): "Large, pointed heart-shaped, somewhat oblong; pale yellow, blotched and shaded with red; stalk two inches long, slender; flesh firm, becoming rather tender, rich, high flavor; 'very good' Season medium. Not desirable for market because of its light color, tender flesh, and liability to rot, but excellent for home use. English. Rather tender in very severe climates." Per Hedrick (see citation): "Brown-rot...attacks this cherry more aggressively than any other sort...The tree...is a little tender to cold. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, very productive...Leaves numerous, five and one-half inches long, two and one half inches wide, folded upward, long-obovate to elliptical, thin; petiolee two inches long, heavily tinged with red, with a few scattering hairs along the upper surface, with from two to four reniform or globose, reddish-brown glands on the stalk. Buds large, long, pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and on very short spurs variable in size; mid-season in blooming; flowers one and one-half inches across, white... Fruit matures early; about one inch long, three fourths inch wide...skin thin, thender, separating from the pulp; flesh white with a tinge of yellow, with colorless juice, slightly stringy, tender, very mild, sweet; of good quality; stone free except along the ventral suture, one-half inch long, long-ovate." See also, The Cherry, pg. 194, ruit Growing in South Africa, pg. 186, and The Fruit Garden (see citation below).