Cherry tree

Abstract

A cherry tree which is of medium size and medium vigor, upright to spreading, dense, vase formed, hardy, foliated with large to medium size, ovate occasionally slightly obovate, abruptly to acutely pointed leaves having a crenate, finely serrate margin, and glabrous, opposite-alternate, medium size, mixed, red glands on the petiole adjacent the base of the blade, blooms early from hardy, medium size, medium length, conic, plump, free buds, the resultant flowers being early, medium size, and white, and the tree is a regular and very productive bearer of early-ripening, large to medium size, uniform, symmetrical transversely of the suture plane, globose, semi-freestone fruit having glassy, red skin, and red flesh with lighter streaking radiating from the pit cavity, the latter being red.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized, in particular, by large to medium size fruit which is crack-resistant, sizes well, is borne heavily and regularly on relatively short stems, is uniform in size and ripens evenly with the ripening period shortly after Burlat but before Larian and Bing, is firmer with darker red flesh than Larian but softer than Bing, is sweet flavored, and is of an attractive glassy red exterior color; the fruit, in shape, generally resembling the Bing but is slightly more round in cross section and not quite as flattened on the ventral side.