Black Tartarian Cherry. -- I have this in my backyard. Alas mine is very old and sickly, termites seem to have gotten the best of it. Still, every year it flowers and give us delicious cherries though to be honest the chickens often get more of it then we do as they can scour the grass for the small cherries that fall.
This splendid variety of the Cherry, which is also known by the name of the Circassian Cherry, Superb Circassian, Black Russian, Frazer's Black Heart, and Ronald's Black Heart, is said to be a native of Spain, having been carried to Russia thence to England. It is also said to have been brought from Circassia to England, by Mr. Ronald, in 1704.
"It is distinguished for its large obtuse-heart-shaped. shining purplish-black fruit, and hangs in clusters. It is a cherry of great excellence, bears plentifully, ripens early, and readily commands in the market double the price of the ordinary kinds."
The tree grows rapidly, is very ornamental, and is, on all accounts, worthy of general cultivation. The Cherry Tree (Prunus Cerastes), is said to have been "introduced into Italy from Pontus, in Asia, by the Roman general. Luculllus.
Cherries were hawked in the streets of London in the beginning of the 15th century. There are between two and three hundred varieties under cultivation.—People's Journal.
The Cherry is rather uncertain in the South, especially on "the seaboard —it succeeds tolerably, however, in many sections of the "up-country," and should receive increased attention everywhere.
It's does great in the cold winters here in Northern PA. The man who planted it, who also had the house built, was a Lithuanian, and obviously was familiar with its attributes. While a deciduous, it is very big and a good wind block...or perhaps was in its better days.
--article forom 8 March 1855
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