this new sour cherryis similar in type of tree and leaf to the Montmorency variety, but primarily distinguished therefrom by tie different colored flesh and furthermore by the fact that it has at least ten days to two weeks earlier ripening season, corresponding to the ripening season of the Early Richmond, and that it has crimson flesh and lighter crimson juice, whereas the Montmorency has translucen flesh and juice.
This early ripening of the same type of sour cherry as lvlontinorencyextends the cherry period over double the length of time and this, with the other advantages to be derived therefrom, well known to the trade.
this new cherryis at least one third larger in size than the Early Richmond.
Fig. 1represents the Early Richmond at its ripe stage
Fig. 2is the new variety of cherry of this application at the Early Richmond ripe stage shown in Fig. 1, and C Fig. 3, by comparison, the stage of ripening of the true Montmorency at the ripening stages of those shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
the cherry tree herein describedcharacterized by earliness of the ripening period of its fruit, as shown.
