Leaves numerous, three and one-half inches long, one and three-fourths inches wide, folded upward, broad-oval to obovate, thick, stiff; upper surface dark green, slightly rugose; apex acute, base variable in shape; margin serrate, glandular; petiole one inch long, tinged with dull red, glandless or with from one to three globose, yellow or brownish glands, usually at the base of the blade.
Buds usually pointed, plump, free, arranged singly as lateral buds and in small clusters on short spurs; leaf-scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, one inch across; borne in scattering clusters, usually in threes; pedicels five-eighths inch long, glabrous, green; calyx-tube tinged with red, obconic, glabrous; calyx-lobes with a trace of red, long, broad, acute, serrate, glabrous within and without, reflexed; petals obovate, entire or slightly crenate, sessile, with a crenate apex; filaments one-fourth inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to or longer than the stamens, often defective.
Fruit matures in mid-season; three-fourths of an inch in diameter, oblate, compressed; cavity wide, flaring; suture shallow; apex flattened or depressed; color dark red; dots numerous, small, russet, somewhat conspicuous; stem thick, one inch long, adhering fairly well to the fruit; skin thick, separating from the pulp; flesh whitish, showing distinctly the fibers in the pulp, with abundant colorless or slightly tinged juice, tender and melting, sprightly, pleasant flavored, tart; of very good quality; stone free, roundish, plump, with smooth surfaces, tinged with red.
=1.= _Pom. Mag._ =1=:45, Pl. 1828. =2.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat._ 48, 49, 55, 56. 1831. =3.= Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:134, 135. 1832. =4.= _Hort. Reg._ (Eng.) =1=:257, fig. 1833. =5.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 191 fig. 80. 1845. =6.= _Mag. Hort._ =13=:397 fig. 33, 398. 1847. =7.= _Gard. Chron._ 556. 1848. =8.= Hovey _Fr. Am._ =1=:37, 38, Pl. 1851. =9.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 74. 1862.
_Wahre Englische Kirsche._ =10.= Christ _Handb._ 682. 1797. =11.= Christ _Wörterb._ 284. 1802. =12.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort_. 405-410. 1819. =13.= Dochnahl _Führ. Obstkunde_ =3=:50. 1858. =14.= _Ill. Handb._ 499 fig., 500. 1861.
_Späte Herzogenkirsche._ =15.= Truchsess-Heim _Kirschensort_. 434-437. 1819.