Leaves numerous, four and one-half inches long, two and one-fourth
inches wide, folded upward, obovate to long-elliptical, thin;
upper surface medium green, slightly rugose; lower surface light
green, faintly pubescent; apex acute, base abrupt; margin coarsely
and doubly serrate; petiole about one and one-half inches long,
tinged with red, with a few hairs, with from one to four reniform,
reddish glands, usually on the stalk.
Buds large, pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral
buds or in clusters variable in size on short spurs; leaf-scars
prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, one and
three-eighths inches across; borne in scattering clusters, in
ones, twos or threes; pedicels one and one-fourth inches long,
glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube tinged with red, campanulate,
glabrous; calyx-lobes with reddish tinge, broad, acute, glabrous
within and without, reflexed; petals roundish, entire, nearly
sessile, with a shallow notch at the apex; filaments one-half inch
long; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens.
Fruit matures late; about three-fourths of an inch in diameter,
cordate; cavity wide, flaring; suture shallow, indistinct; apex
slightly pointed, with a small depression at the center; color
purplish-black; dots numerous, small, dark russet, inconspicuous;
stem slender, one and one-fourth inches long, adherent to the
fruit; skin thin, tender, adherent to the pulp; flesh dark red,
with dark colored juice, very meaty, crisp, mild, somewhat
aromatic, sweet; of good quality; stone clinging, longer than
wide, ovate, flattened, with smooth surfaces, somewhat marked with
a reddish tinge.
DOUBLE GLASS
_Prunus avium_ × _Prunus cerasus_
1. Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort._ 440-451, 487-490, 689. 1819. 2.
Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =3=:51, 52. 1858. 3. _Ill. Handb._ 163
fig., 164. 1860. 4. _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 329. 1888. 5. _Ia.
Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 80. 1890. 6. _Can. Exp. Farm Bul._ =17=:7. 1892.
7. Budd-Hansen _Am. Hort. Man._ =2=:274. 1903.
_Amarelle Double de Verre._ 8. Mortillet _Le Cerisier_
=2=:197-201, fig. 55. 1866.
_Great Cornelian._ 9. Hogg _Fruit Man._ 299. 1884.
_Glass._ 10. _Ia. Sta. Bul._ =73=:70. 1903.
Double Glass is a Duke, a hybrid more nearly resembling the Sweet Cherry
than the Sour Cherry. The trees grow remarkably well in nursery and
orchard and their behavior so pleased growers when the variety was
brought to notice that it became for a time quite the vogue. But the
trees turned out to be unproductive and the cherries so mediocre that
the variety rapidly passed through its heyday of popularity. The fruits
are curiously marked, the suture being so deep as to make them appear
double--hence the name. The variety has no value where sweet sorts are
hardy but possibly might find a niche somewhere in regions where a more
tender Sweet Cherry cannot be grown.
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