Buds intermediate in size and length, plump, pointed, arranged singly as lateral buds or in clusters of various sizes on both long and short spurs; leaf-scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers one and seven-sixteenths inches across, well distributed in scattering clusters in twos and threes; pedicels one and one-eighth inches long, medium in thickness, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube with a slight tinge of red, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes long, medium in width, acute, slightly serrate, glabrous within and without; petals somewhat obovate, crenate, nearly sessile, with a very shallow notch at the apex; anthers yellow; filaments shorter than the petals; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens, often defective. Fruit matures in mid-season; large, seven-eighths inch long, thirteen-sixteenths inch wide, cordate, compressed, the surface markedly irregular and broken into ridges; cavity very deep, wide, irregular, abrupt; suture variable, shallow to very deep and wide and at times double; apex blunt-pointed, usually not depressed; color attractive purplish-black; dots numerous, very small, somewhat russet, obscure; stem medium in thickness, long, averaging two and one-eighth inches, adheres well to the fruit; skin medium in thickness, rather tender but not inclined to crack, adheres slightly to the pulp; flesh purplish-red, with abundant dark red juice, tender, meaty, mild, very pleasant, sweet; very good to best in quality; stone clinging, large, strongly ovate, with slightly roughish surface. MONTMORENCY _Prunus cerasus_ =1.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr._ =1=:181, 182. 1768. =2.= Kraft _Pom. Aust._ =1=:6, Tab. 15 fig. 1. 1792. =3.= Christ _Wörterb._ 292. 1802. =4.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort_. 656, 657, 691. 1819. =5.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 281. 1832. =6.= Poiteau _Pom. Franc._ =2=: No. 14, Pl. 1846. =7.= Mas _Le Verger_ =8=:53, 54, fig. 25. 1866-73. =8.= _Pom. France_ =7=: No. 3, Pl. 3. 1871. =9.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =5=:361, 362 fig., 363, 364. 1877. =10.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 369. 1889. =11.= _Guide Prat._ 9, 196. 1895. =12.= _Del. Sta. An. Rpt._ =12=:112 fig. 4, 113, 114. 1900. =13.= _Am. Gard._ =22=:266, 267. 1901. =14.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 27. 1909. _Kleine Glaskirsche von Montmorency._ =15.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort_. 463, 464, 465. 1819. _Long Stem Montmorency._ =16.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:139. 1832. _Amarelle Royale._ =17.= Mortillet _Le Cerisier_ =2=:191-195, fig. 53. 1866. _Montmorency Ordinaire._ =18.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 17. 1897. =19.= _Ia. Sta. Bul._ =73=:75, fig. 15. 1903. =20.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Sp. Rpt._ 33, 34, Pl. 2. 1904-05.