Bing  named after a Chinese workman, Seth Lewelling of Milwaukee, Oregon grew the Bing from the seed of Republican in 1875 and by 1899 the American Pomological Society placed the variety on its fruit list.   The tree is large and vigorous, erect, becoming upright-spreading, rather open, productive with thick and smooth, trunk and branches.  The brownish branches and trunk have abundant thick large leaves folded upward, with an upper surface of dark green and lower surface of light green.  The cherries mature in mid season or later, very large, one inch in diameter, heart shaped, with a deep cavity, of medium width, with an apex roundish or slightly depressed,  the color is very dark red almost black, the stem is 1 1/4 inches long, skin of medium thickness, tough, adherent to the pulp, flesh purplish red with dark purple juice, rather coarse, firm, very meaty, brittle sweet, of very good quality.  the stone id semi free, large, ovate to oval, blunt with smooth surfaces.