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with numerous small lenticels; branchlets short, brown partly overspread with ash-gray, 

 smooth, with numerous raised lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, three and one-half inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, 

 folded upward, obovate to oval, thin; upper surface dark green, smooth; lower surface 

 light green, glossy, with a few scattering hairs; apex acute; margin doubly serrate, 

 glandular; petiole one and one-fourth inches long, greenish, glandless or with one or two 

 globose, brownish glands variable in position. 



Buds usually pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and in small 

 clusters on short spurs; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, 

 one inch across; borne in dense clusters, usually in threes; pedicels one-half inch long, 

 glabrous, greenish; calyx- tube with a tinge of red, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes with 

 a trace of red, long, of medium width, acute, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; 

 petals oval to sHghtly obovate, entire, nearly sessile; apex entire; filaments one-fourth 

 inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. 



Fruit matures in mid-season; nearly one inch in diameter, roundish to sUghtly oblate, 

 somewhat compressed; cavity abrupt, regular; suture a line; apex roundish, with a small 

 depression at the center; color bright red; dots russet, obscure; stem thickish, one and 

 one-foiuth inches long, adhering well to the fruit; skin tough, separating from the pulp; 

 flesh light red, with abundant light red or wine-colored juice, tender and melting, 

 sprightly, astringent, tart; of fairly good quality; stone free, small, roundish, slightly 

 flattened, somewhat pointed at the apex, with smooth surfaces; somewhat ridged along 

 the ventral suture. 



OSTHEIM 



Prunus cerasus 



I. Christ Obslbaume 159. 1791. 2. Christ Handb. 676. 1797. 3. Truchsess-Heim Kirschensort. 

 512-517. 1819. 4. Prince Pom. Man. 2:145. 1832. 5. Dochnahl Fii/ir. Oftj/^ande 3:60. 1858. 6.111. 

 Handb. 187 fig., 188. i860. 7. Leroy Diet. Pom. 5:295, 296 fig. 1877. 8. Mathieu Nom. Pom. 371. 

 1889. 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 25. 1899. 10. Del. Sta. An. Rpt. 12:121, 122. 1900. 11. la. Sta. Bui. 

 73:78 fig. 18, 79. 1903. 12. Wash. Sta. Bui. 92:14, 21, 22. 1910. 



Ostheim finds considerable favor in the prairie states of the Middle 

 West but is all but worthless as grown in New York and other eastern 

 states. It is one of the Morellos and falls far short of the best of its group, 

 the cherries being too small and of but mediocre quality. The trees are 

 typical Morellos, round-headed, with slender, drooping branches and branch- 

 lets and very dark green foliage. The fruit is borne toward the ends of 

 short branches which are not well distributed over the main branches, 

 leaving much bare wood. Like all Morellos the fruit hangs long after 

 maturity and since the ripening season is late the variety may be worth 

 growing because of its lateness; as it may, also, in cold climates because 

 of great hardiness. The trees on their own roots throw up many suckers 

 which are often used in propagation. The variety has the reputation, 

 too, of coming true to name from seeds. 



