Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths inch long, one inch wide, nearly oblate, somewhat compressed; cavity deep, wide, medium flaring, regular; suture indistinct; apex roundish to flattened; color bright red; dots small, russet, inconspicuous; stem stout, one and one-eighth inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin tender, free; flesh yellowish-white with colorless juice, tender and melting, sprightly, sour; of good quality; stone free, large, roundish-ovate, pointed, with smooth surfaces, tinged with red, with a prominent ventral suture. BRUSSELER BRAUNE _Prunus cerasus_ 1. Christ _Handb._ 676. 1797. 2. Christ _Wörterb._ 288. 1802. 3. Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort._ 533-536. 1819. 4. Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =3=:63, 64. 1858. 5. Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 333, 341. 1889. 6. _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 24. 1899. 7. _Del. Sta. An. Rpt._ =12=:124, 125, fig. 8. 1900. _Brüsselsche Bruyn_. 8. Krünitz _Enc._ 75, 76. 1790. _Zweite Grösser Herzkirschweichsel._ 9. Kraft _Pom. Aust._ =1=:9, Tab. 22 fig. 1. 1792. _Ratafia._ 10. Hogg _Fruit Man._ 309, 310. 1884. From the standpoint of commercial cherry culture, Brusseler Braune has little value. The trees are uncertain in bearing; the cherries are small, sour, and astringent; and, worse than the faults named, the crop ripens very unevenly. It is of the English Morello type but in New York, at least, is far inferior to this well-known sort. Brusseler Braune has been much advertised for cold climates but there are many better cherries that stand cold nearly or quite as well and are better in both tree and fruit characters and, in particular, that will not vex the souls of growers by ripening so unevenly. The variety has two marked peculiarities: the leaves on the two-year-old wood are very small and the fruit-stems bear a small leaflet at their base. These leaflets on the fruit-stem would have to be removed in marketing the crop--another serious defect.