Inventory 49, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate I. 



The Wild Cherry of Guatemala. (Prunus salicifolia H. B. K.. S. P. I. 



No. 43425.) 



The cereza, or wild cherry, is common in the highlands of Mexico and Central America. Its fruits 

 are of pleasant flavor and almost as large as some of the cultivated cherries of temperate regions. 

 Because of its adaptability to subtropical conditions this species merits introduction into the 

 southern United States and similar regions. (Photographed, natural size, by Wilson Popenoe, 

 May 6, 1917, at Antigua, Guatemala; P17279FS.) 



