Leaves numerous, six inches long, three inches wide, folded upward, obovate; upper surface light green, smooth; lower surface pale green, pubescent along the midrib and larger veins; apex acute, base abrupt; margin serrate, glandular; petiole one and one-half inches long, thick, dull red, with a narrow, deep groove along the upper surface, glandless or with one or two large, reniform, reddish glands on the stalk. Buds large, long, obtuse to conical, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and in numerous small clusters; leaf-scars prominent; time of blooming mid-season; flowers white, one and one-half inches across; borne in scattering clusters in twos and threes; pedicels one inch long, thick, glabrous; calyx-tube green or with a tinge of red, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes long, broad, acute, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals oval, crenate, with short, narrow claws; filaments three-eighths inch long; pistil glabrous, shorter than the stamens. Fruit matures in mid-season; one inch in diameter, cordate, compressed, often slightly oblique; cavity deep, wide, flaring; suture indistinct; apex bluntly pointed; color purplish-black; dots numerous, small, dark russet, obscure; stem slender, one and one-half inches long, strongly adherent to the fruit; skin tough, separating from the pulp; flesh purplish-red, with dark colored juice, very meaty, crisp, firm, mild, sweet; of good quality; stone semi-clinging, ovate, slightly oblique, with smooth surfaces; ventral suture prominent. SHORT-STEM MONTMORENCY _Prunus cerasus_ =1.= Christ. _Handb._ 679. 1797. =2.= _Prince Pom. Man._ =2=:141, 142. 1832. =3.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =5=:365, 366 fig., 367. 1877. _Gobet à Courte Queue._ =4.= Duhamel _Trait. Arb. Fr._ =1=:180, 181, Pl. VIII. 1768. =5.= Kraft _Pom. Aust._ =1=:7, Tab. 18 fig. 1. 1792. _Gros Gobet._ =6.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort._ 634-638. 1819. =7.= Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =3=:71, 72. 1858. =8.= Mortillet _Le Cerisier_ =2=:204, 308. 1866. =9.= _Mas Le Verger_ =8=:51, 52, fig. 24. 1866-73. =10.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 299, 300. 1884. =11.= Mathieu _Nom. Pom._ 358. 1889. =12.= _Guide Prat._ 9, 190. 1895. _Flemish._ =13.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 195 fig. 85, 196. 1845. _Cerise à Courte Queue._ 1=4.= Poiteau _Pom. Franc._ =2=: No. 15, Pl. 1846. _Cerise Gros Fruit._ =15.= _Pom. France_ =7=: No. 11, Pl. 11. 1871.