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at nearly the same time and can all be gatliered at one pi(3kmj?. 

 * * * I consider this cherry not only of prosjjective value 

 for its fruit, but of immediate value as a hardy shrub." I hav^ 

 been familiar with the sand cherry for many years, both wild 

 and when transferred to the garden. It is very abundant on the 

 sand dunes of Lake Mchigan, where it makes a shrub from five 

 to ten feet high and bears veiy profusely of variable fruits. Souio 

 of these natural varieties are large, sweet and palatable a/id at 

 once suggest an effort to ameliorate them. Professor Budd anl 



Fignre'14. — Prunus cuneata. Natural size. 



others suggest its use as a dwarf stock for cherries,* while it 

 is found to grow well, for a time, at least, upon the piiuch.? 

 Finally, Charles E. Pennock, of Bellvue, Colorado, is introducing 

 the Improved Dwarf Kocky Mountain cherry, a description and 

 history of which follow. I am particularly gratified to repori this 

 fruit because I remember with great distinctness that a ""^ Rocky 

 Mountain cherry" grew in my father's yard from my earliest 

 boyhood. Pits were brought by a friend from PrKe'*s Peak in an 

 early day. As the western botanies do not nunitioii any d\Yarf 



* Bull. 10, la. Exp. Sta., 435. Bull 18 Minn. Exp. Sta., 128. Bailey, Nursery-book,159. 

 § Bailey, Country Gent., li., 676 (Sept. 9, 1886). 



