Colorado, under the popular name of “Dwarf Rocky 
Mountain Cherry,” previous to its recognition as a species 
by Prof. Bailey. The fruit is variable in quality, with a 
flavour comparable to that of a Morello Cherry. Cultiva- 
tion and selection will, no doubt, eliminate whatever may 
be excessive in the bitterness and astringency of the wild 
fruits. Mr. C. E. Pennock, Fort Collins, Colorado, who 
was one of the first to detect the economic value of this 
Cherry, mentions, as evidence of its wonderful productive- 
ness in that State, that he has picked sixteen quarts of 
fruit from a three-year-old bush, and eighty cherries from 
a branch 12 in. long. It will not be of any economic 
value in the British Isles, but it is worth the notice of fruit- 
growers in South Africa and Australia, or wherever the 
summer conditions approximate to those of Colorado. 
The plant from which our figure was prepared is one 
of a batch sent to Kew by Professor Sargent, in 1900, 
from the Arnold Arboretum. They have flowered during 
‘the last three years, and in early May, when the growths 
of the preceding summer are crowded with fascicles of 
white flowers, make a charming display. The fruit has 
not, hitherto, been produced in sufficient abundance at 
Kew, to count among the ornamental qualities of the plant. 
The species is quite hardy. | 
Descr.—A dwarf, compact, sometimes prostrate shrub, 
2-4 ft. high, deciduous, glabrous in every part. Leaves 
elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or slightly obovate, 1-24 in. 
long, serrate, or the basal part often entire, greyish green. 
Stipules subulate, serrate. Fascicles of 2 to 4 flowers pro- © 
duced in May at the nodes of the previous season’s 
branches. Flowers 3 in. in diameter, on pedicels } in. 
long. Calyx green, 5-lobed; lobes ovate, glandular-ser- 
rate, finally reflexed. Petals white. Drupes on stout, 
more or less depressed pedicels, 3 in. long, at first covered 
ssh a purplish bloom, black when quite ripe.—W. J. 
BAN, 
Fig. 1, a partially expanded flower; 2, section through the receptacle ; 
3 and 4, anthers :—all enlarged. “ 
