The inventors Roger Brown, Susan Anderson and Robert from the Cornell Research Foundation Inc (Ithaca, NY) has been invented a new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree characterized as to novelty by the unique combination of self-fertile flowers, light flesh-type, with good disease tolerance and good hardiness of the tree. This new variety is unique because this is the first self-fertile, yellow flesh-type, sweet cherry that has been made available to the commercial nursery industry of the United States of America; and the fruit has several traits that make if favorable for dual-purpose fresh market and processed uses.
         The orchard location where the seedling was grown and first noticed was designated as Crittenden Farm. This seedling was first noticed because Cornell scientists purposely bagged branches to isolate the flowers from pollinating insect visits and it cropped heavily inside the bag, proving that it was self-fertile; and the fruit were light in flesh color and possessed a ninety percent red blush. This skin coloration was considered as uncommon and potentially valuable for fresh market appeal of the fruit.
         The new variety differs from its parents in the following. Unlike `Emperor Francis` the new variety is self fertile whereas `Emperor Francis` requires another variety as a pollen source. Unlike `Stella` the new variety is yellow fleshed with skin coloration of a red blush over yellow where "Stella" has dark burgundy-black skin and flesh.
This new variety may be used for either fresh market or processed as brined, it may become popular for commercial orchardists to use as pollenizer because universally compatible with all other sweet cherry varieties and has unique fruit coloration which will allow it to be easily identified by harvest laborers. May become popular for home orchards where light flesh-type is desired if lawn/garden space is limited because self-fertile trait allows successful cultivation of just one sweet cherry tree.