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Budd and Hansen in 1903 described a variety which agrees very closely 

 with the true variety of Truchsess which we herewith describe. 



Tree vigorous, upright, hardy; foUage large, coarse. 



Fruit matures the second week in Jime; medium to large, roundish, flattened at the 

 base; cavity variable in depth; suture shallow, indistinct; apex depressed; color yeUow 

 overspread with Ught red; stem green, straight, rather slender, one and one-half to two 

 inches long; flesh slightly colored, juicy, firm but tender, pleasantly subacid; very good 

 in quality; stone variable in size, broad. 



CALIFORNIA ADVANCE 



Prunus avium 



I. Wickson Cal. Fruits 289, 292. 1889. 2. Wash. Sta. Bui. 92:25. 1910. 

 Advance. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 130. 1897. 

 Vlatis. 4. Mich. Sta. Bui. iTl'i^- 1899. 



California Advance is a Sweet Cherry, one of the " Hearts " of common 

 parlance, distinguished and worth growing only because it is extra early, 

 though when fully ripe it is of very good quality. It is usually described 

 as a cherry of " large size " but on the grounds of this Station the cherries 

 run small, as they are occasionally reported elsewhere to do, suggesting 

 that the variety requires good care and a choice cherry soil for a finely 

 finished product. On these grounds the variety seems to be preeminently 

 free from fungus diseases but the robin and other birds take greater toll 

 from it than from almost any other cherry, beginning their harvest long 

 before the fruit is fit for human fare. California Advance might well be 

 planted in a small way for a local market in New York, or a tree or two 

 for home use, but it has no place in large ntraibers in this State. 



California Advance came from a seed of Early Purple sown by W. H. 

 Chapman of Napa, California, the seedling being saved because the cherrigs 

 were larger and ripened earlier than those of its parent. It has sometimes 

 been confused with the Chapman cherry, of somewhat similar character- 

 istics which also originated in Napa, but the two are quite distinct. 



Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense, productive; trunk and branches stout, 

 smooth' branchlets of medium thickness, brownish-bronze partly covered with ash-gray, 

 elabrous; leaves ntunerous, five and one-half inches long, two and one-half inches wide, 

 long-obovate to elliptical, thin, medium green, slightly rugose; margin serrate, glandular; 

 oetiole nearly two inches long, slender, traged with red, pubescent along the upper side 

 and with a shallow groove, with from two to four large, reniform, reddish glands, usually 

 on the stalk; buds large, obtuse or pointed, plump, arranged singly as lateral buds or in 

 clusters of variable size on nvimerous short spurs; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom 

 early; flowers one and one-eighth inches across; pistil equal to the stamens in length. 



