Leaves three inches long, one and one-half inches wide, folded upwards or flattened, oval to obovate, leathery; upper surface dark green, smooth; lower surface pale green, with a few scattering hairs; apex and base variable in shape; margin doubly crenate, glandular; petiole one inch long, tinged with dull red, glandless or with from one to three small, globose, brownish or yellowish glands, usually at the base of the blade. Buds obtuse, plump, free, arranged singly or in clusters on short spurs; leaf-scars obscure; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, one and one-fourth inches across; borne in scattered clusters in twos and threes; pedicels one inch long, glabrous, greenish; calyx-tube green, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes tinged with red, broad, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals roundish to obovate, crenate, with short, blunt claws and shallow, crenate apex; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to or slightly longer than the stamens. Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, roundish-oblate, slightly compressed; cavity abrupt; suture very shallow; apex roundish; color light to rather dark red; dots numerous, small, russet, inconspicuous; stem thick, usually with a faint tinge of red, one inch long, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tender, separating from the pulp; flesh pale yellow, with a reddish tinge, with abundant light pink juice, tender and melting, sprightly, tart; of very good quality; stone free, small, roundish-ovate, flattened, pointed, with smooth surfaces which are tinged with red. NAPOLEON _Prunus avium_ =1.= Prince _Treat. Hort._ 30. 1828. =2.= Kenrick _Am. Orch._ 273, 274. 1832. =3.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 183. 1845. =4.= Thomas _Am. Fruit Cult._ 365. 1849. =5.= _Ann. Pom. Belge_ =1=:27, 28, fig. 2. 1853. =6.= Elliott _Fr. Book_ 215. 1859. =7.= Thompson _Gard. Ass't_ 527. 1859. =8.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 74. 1862. =9.= Mortillet _Le Cerisier_ =2=:132. 1866. =10.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 470. 1869. =11.= _Pom. France_ =7=: No. 9, Pl. 9. 1871. =12.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =5=:219, 220 fig., 221. 1877. =13.= _Flor. & Pom._ 57, Pl. 465. 1878. =14.= Mas _Pom. Gen._ =11=:109, 110, fig. 55. 1882. =15.= _Cornell Sta. Bul._ =98=:493, fig. 87. 1895. =16.= _Ont. Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt._ =5=:38 fig. 1898. _Gros Bigarreau Blanc._ =17.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr_. =1=:165. 1768. =18.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort_. 308-310. 1819. =19.= Mortillet _Le Cerisier_ =2=:123-126, fig. 29. 1866. =20.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =5=:179, 180 fig., 181. 1877. =21.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 354. 1889. _Lauermannskirsche._ =22.= Christ _Handb._ 664. 1797. =23.= Christ _Wörterb._ 280. 1802. =24.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort_. 292-295, 323-328. 1819. =25.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 367. 1889.