Leaves numerous, three inches long, one and one-half inches wide, slightly folded upward, obovate to long-oval; upper surface very dark green, smooth; lower surface light green, with a few hairs along the midrib; apex acute, base variable in shape; margin finely serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole one-half inch long, tinged with dull red, with a few hairs along the grooved upper surface, with from one to three small, globose, greenish-yellow glands at the base of the blade. Buds small, short, obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly and in clusters on short spurs; leaf-scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers one inch across, white; borne in dense but well-distributed clusters, usually at the ends of spur-like branches, in twos, threes or fours; pedicels one and one-half inches long, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes tinged with red, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals roundish-obovate, entire, almost sessile, with entire apex; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, nearly equal to the stamens in length. Fruit matures early; more than one-half inch in diameter, oblate, slightly compressed; cavity of medium depth, narrow, abrupt, regular; suture indistinct; apex flattened, with a small depression at the center; color dark red; dots numerous, small, obscure; stem one inch long, adhering to the pulp; skin thin, tough; flesh light yellowish-white, with pinkish juice, tender, sprightly, tart; of very good quality; stone nearly free, ovate, slightly flattened, with smooth surfaces; somewhat ridged along the ventral suture. EAGLE _Prunus avium_ =1.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =104=:84. 1894. =2.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 17. 1897. _Black Eagle._ =3.= Prince _Treat. Hort._ 31. 1828. =4.= _Pom. Mag._ =3=:127, Pl. 127. 1830. =5.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 274, 275. 1832. =6.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 170 fig. 62. 1845. =7.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 102. 1846. =8.= _Mag. Hort._ =14=:386, 387 fig. 37. 1848. =9.= _Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr._ 52. 1848. =10.= Hovey _Fr. Am._ =1=:85, Pl. 1851. =11.= _Horticulturist_ N. S. =4=:287. 1854. =12.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 108, 186. 1856. =13.= Mortillet _Le Cerisier_ =2=:77-79, fig. 12. 1866. =14.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =11=:83, 84, fig. 42. 1882. =15.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 285, 286. 1884. =16.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =98=:491 fig. 86. 1895.