  The hadronic decay of radially and orbitally excited charmonium above charm
threshold by $^3 P_{0}$ pair creation and chromoelectric flux--tube breaking is
discussed in an harmonic oscillator approximation. We find independent evidence
from a study of widths for a 2S admixture in the predominantly 1D state
$\psi(3770)$, and explore the possibility of metastable radially excited $2 \;
^{3}P_{0,1,2}$ states being a source of the anomalously large production of
$\psi^{'}$ at the Tevatron. At least one of them is expected to be narrow as a
consequence of the existence of nodes in the radial wave function.
