Tree small, not very vigorous, upright, becoming round-topped, very productive; trunk slender, roughish; branches slender, much roughened, reddish-brown partly covered with ash-gray, with numerous small lenticels; branchlets with short internodes, brown slightly covered with ash-gray, smooth except for the numerous small, conspicuous, much-raised lenticels. Leaves numerous, three and one-half inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded upward, obovate, thick; upper surface dark green, slightly rugose; lower surface light green, thinly pubescent; apex abruptly pointed, base variable in shape; margin doubly serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole three-fourths of an inch long, tinged with red, with a few hairs along the upper surface, glandless or with one or two small, globose, greenish-yellow or reddish glands, usually at the base of the blade. Buds obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and on long or short spurs, in clusters variable in size; leaf-scars obscure; blooming in mid-season; flowers one and one-fourth inches across, white; borne in very dense clusters, in threes and fours; pedicels one inch long, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube with a faint tinge of red, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes with a trace of red, acute, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals roundish, entire, with short but distinct claws; apex nearly entire; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in length. Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, roundish-conic to oblate-conic, compressed; cavity narrow; suture very shallow, indistinct; apex flattened or depressed; color dark red; dots numerous, small, dark russet, obscure; stem one and one-fourth inches long, adherent to the fruit; skin tough, separating from the pulp; flesh pale red, with pinkish juice, tender, meaty, sprightly, pleasant flavored, tart; of good quality; stone semi-clinging, small, ovate, flattened, somewhat oblique, with smooth surfaces. ENGLISH MORELLO _Prunus cerasus_ =1.= Parkinson _Par. Ter._ 572. 1629. =2.= Langley _Pomona_ 85. 1729. =3.= Christ _Handb._ 677. 1797. =4.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 54. 1831. =5.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 197, 198 fig. 1845. =6.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 74. 1862. =7.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 306, 307. 1884. =8.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 27. 1909. _Grosse Cerise à Ratafia._ =9.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr._ =1=:189. 1768. _Grosse Lange Lothkirsche._ =10.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort._ 599, 600, 601. 1819. =11.= _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ 326. 1888. =12.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 356, 357. 1889. _Large Morello._ =13.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:144. 1832.