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DUKES AND MORELLOS {Prunus cerasus). 



The Dukes difiPer so greatly in habit of growth, foliage, and fruit from 

 the Mazzards on the one hand, and from the Morellos on the other, as to 

 indicate the possible blending of the two some time in the remote past, by 

 cross-fertilization, and yet botanists fail to treat the Dukes as a distinct 

 species. They are therefore classed with Morellos. 



