The cherry described here as Early Morello was introduced by Professor J. L. Budd from Orel, Russia, as Orel No. 23. It has proved very productive and hardy throughout the West and resembles Early Richmond, though smaller, a trifle darker, less acid and a week later. A dark-fleshed variety from Erfurt, Prussia, was sent out from Rosedale, Kansas, where it is known as Early Morello. This, and one by D. U. Reed, Blue Springs, Nebraska, appear to be very similar to the Northwest, or Wier No. 29. Tree of medium size and vigor, upright-spreading, very productive; trunk rather thick, shaggy; branches with numerous large lenticels; branchlets slender, short; leaves two and three-fourths inches long, one and one-half inches wide, thick, stiff, dark green, rather glossy, smooth; margin finely and doubly serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole glandless or with from one to three small, globose, brown or yellowish glands variable in position; buds small, short, obtuse, in small clusters at the ends of slender, branchlike spurs; leaf-scars prominent; season of bloom late; flowers one inch across; pistil equal to or slightly longer than the stamens, sometimes defective. Fruit matures in mid-season; about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, oblate, compressed; color attractive dark red; stem one inch long, adhering to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating from the pulp; flesh light yellow, with pinkish juice, tender and melting, sprightly, tart; of very good quality; stone free, ovate, flattened, slightly pointed, with smooth surfaces, somewhat tinged with red. EARLY PURPLE _Prunus avium_ =1.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 26. 1909. _Purple Cherry._ =2.= Ray _Hist. Plant._ 1540. 1688. _Early Purple Guigne._ =3.= _Cultivator_ N. S. =4=:280 fig. 2. 1847. =4.= Hovey _Fr. Am._ =1=:93, 94, Pl. 1851. =5.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._ 55. 1852. =6.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 211. 1856. =7.= Mas _Le Verger_ =8=:129, 130, fig. 63. 1866-73. =8.= Mortillet _Le Cerisier_ =2=:57 fig. 3, 58, 59. 1866. =9.= _Horticulturist_ =25=:71 fig. 1870. =10.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =5=:334, 335 fig., 336. 1877. =11.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 295. 1884. =12.= _Guide Prat._ 6, 193. 1895. _Purple Guigne_. =13.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 195 fig. 1854.