PL 183. 



THE TANGSI CHERRY (Pmnus pseudocerasus Lindl.). S. P. I. No. 18587. 



This Chinese cherry, introduced by Mr. Frank N. Meyor from Tangsi, a small town in 

 the Chekiang Province of China where orchards of it are grown, ripens its fruit a week to 

 10 days earlier than the commercial varieties now grown in northern California. In 1914 

 ripe fruit was picked from March 30 to April 3. Though a thin-skinned, medium-sized 

 cherry, not larger than the Early Richmond, it is of excellent flavor and because of its 

 extreme earliness will probably become a profitable commercial sort. The fact has recently 

 been pointed out that this is doubtless the true Prunus pseudocerasus of Lindley, a name 

 erroneously applied to the Japanese flowering cherry (Prunus serrulata Lindl.). The 

 vigor of this Tangsi cherry has attracted the attention of the growers and suggests its 

 use as a stock for other varieties. Natural size photograph (Chico 467), by Mr. R. L. Beagles, 

 taken April 3, 1914, at Test Orchard, Chico, Cal. 



