PI. 183. 
THE TANGSI CHERRY (Prunus pseuJocerasus Liodl.), S. P. I. No. 18587. 
This Chinese cherry, introduced by Mr. Frank N. Meyer 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. E. L. Beagles, 
taken April 3, 1914, at Test Orchard, Chico, Cal. 
