Tree vigorous, a rapid grower, upright-spreading; branches straggling, reddish-brown; branchlets thick, long, with long internodes, grayish-brown, with numerous rather large, conspicuous, raised lenticels. Leaves numerous, variable in size, averaging five and one-half inches long, two and one-half inches wide, folded upward, long-elliptical to obovate, thin; upper surface dark green, smooth; lower surface light green, with few hairs; apex distinctly elongated, base abrupt; margin coarsely serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole often two inches long, thickish, pubescent on the upper surface, glandless or with from one to six large, reniform, reddish glands usually on the stalk. Buds large, long, conical, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and in small, scattering clusters; leaf-scars obscure; season of bloom intermediate; flowers large, often one and one-half inches across, white; borne in dense clusters, in twos and threes; pedicels one inch long, glabrous, green with a trace of red; calyx-tube distinctly reddish, somewhat obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes strongly tinged with red, broad, acute, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals obovate, entire, tapering to distinct but short claws; apex entire or with a shallow, wide notch; filaments five-sixteenths of an inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to or longer than the stamens. Fruit matures early; one inch in diameter, cordate, compressed; cavity flaring; suture shallow, or a mere line, often extending around the fruit; apex roundish or pointed; color very dark red; dots numerous, small, russet; stem thick, one and one-half inches long; skin thin, rather tender, separating from the pulp; flesh reddish, with dark colored juice, meaty, sprightly, sweet; of very good quality; stone semi-clinging, large, ovate, plump, with smooth surfaces; ridged along the ventral suture. MAGNIFIQUE _Prunus avium × Prunus cerasus_ =1.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 27. 1909. _Belle et Magnifique._ =2.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 279, 280. 1832. =3.= _Ibid._ 239. 1841. _Belle Magnifique._ =4.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 193. 1845. =5.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 54. 1852. =6.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 191. 1854. =7.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 272. 1857. =8.= _Soc. Nat. Hort. France Pom._ 82 fig., 83. 1904. _Belle de Magnifique._ =9.= _Ann. Pom. Belge_ =1=:61, fig. 1. 1853. =10.= _Pom. France_ =7=: No. 19, Pl. 19. 1871. _Belle de Chatenay._ =11.= _Ill. Handb._ 179 fig., 180. 1860. =12.= Mortillet _Le Cerisier_ =2=:175-178, fig. 48. 1866. =12.= Mas _Le Verger_ =8=:57, 58, fig. 27. 1866-73. =13.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 334, 343. 1889. =14.= _Guide Prat._ 9, 181. 1895.