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thrive in localities where the older sort is quite at home. It is a worthy- 

 rival of Early Richmond, however, and ought to be grown both for home 

 and commercial purposes far more than it is. 



To H. T. Harris of Stamford, Kentucky, belongs the honor of intro- 

 ducing this well-known cherry. Although its parentage is unknown, it is 

 almost certain that a Mr. Dyehouse, Lincoln County, Kentucky, raised 

 the tree from a pit sixty or more years ago. At the time of its introduction 

 its characteristics were not clearly drawn and many believed it to be the 

 Early Richmond. In time, however, differences were shown, as we have 

 set forth in the preceding paragraph. It was added to the fruit Ust of the 

 American Pomological Society in 1897. 



Tree small, vigorous, spreading, with drooping branchlets, dense, round-topped, 

 productive; trunk and branches slightly roughened; branches reddish-brown covered 

 with dark ash-gray, with large, elongated, raised lenticels; branchlets slender, willowy, 

 variable in length, brown overspread with ash-gray, smooth, with a few small, incon- 

 spicuous lenticels. 



Leaves numerous, three inches long, one and one-half inches wide, sUghtly folded 

 upward, obovate to long-oval; upper surface very dark green, smooth; lower surface light 

 green, with a few hairs along the midrib; apex acute, base variable in shape; margin finely 

 serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole one-half inch long, tinged with dull red, with 

 a few hairs along the grooved upper surface, with from one to three small, globose, green- 

 ish-yellow glands at the base of the blade. 



Buds small, short, obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly and in clusters on short spurs; 

 leaf-scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers one inch across, wliite; borne 

 in dense but well-distributed clusters, usually at the ends of spur-like branches, in twos, 

 threes or fours; pedicels one and one-half inches long, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, 

 obconic, glabrous; calj'x-lobes tinged with red, serrate, glabrous within and without, 

 reflexed; petals roundish-obovate, entire, almost sessile, \vith entire apex; filaments one- 

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



Fruit matures early; more than one-half inch in diameter, oblate, slightly compressed; 

 cavity of medium depth, narrow, abrupt, regular; suture indistinct; apex flattened, with 

 a small depression at the center; color dark red; dots nvmierous, small, obscure; stem one 

 inch long, adhering to the pulp; skin thin, tough; flesh light yellowish-white, with pinkish 

 jviice, tender, sprightly, tart; of very good quality; stone nearly free, ovate, slightly 

 flattened, with smooth surfaces; somewhat ridged along the ventral suture. 



EAGLE 



Prunus avium 



I. Mich. Sla. Bid. 104:84. 1894. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 17. 1897. 



Black Eagle. 3. Prince Treat. Hort. il. 1828. 4. Pom. Mag. 3:127, PI. 127. 1830. 5. Kenrick 

 Am. Orch. 274, 275. 1832. 6. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 170 fig. 62. 1845. 7. Floy-Lindley Guide Orch. 



