[nafex] Governor Wood vs. Coe's Transparent

["David A. Consolvo" <fruitopia@FIRSTVA.COM>]

Yesterday I just transplanted very happily my healthy Governor Wood sweet
cherries grafted last year.  Donald Yellman had recommended them (thanks for
the scionwood, Donald), and I was especially impressed by how early ripening
he said they were.  But I just read in the New York Tribune of May 9, 1863:

"I discarded my Governor Wood cherry because it did not mature as early as
Coe's Transparent, nor grow such a beautiful fruit nor tree."

Does anyone second the earliness and beauty of Coe's Transparent?  How is
the taste, and does it crack?  I can't find a source of in on the web or in
the Fruit, Nut and Berry Inventory.  Does anyone sell it?

David Consolvo
Hungrytown, Virginia
Zone 7