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growing along rivers and coasts from Maine to Pennsylvania and 

 Manitoba. It has long thick leav<js, and produces cherries of 

 variable size, color and quality. Some of these varieties give 

 great promise as garden fiaiits, and they are already under test 

 at experiment stations. The plant is also being tested as a stock 

 for dwai'f chendes. (b) P. cuneta is. a slender upright slirub with 

 larger flowers and shorter obtuse spatulate or obovate thin leaves 

 gi'owing in cooler lands from New England to North Carolina 

 and Minnesota. It is in cultivation as an ornamental plant under 

 the name of I'runus pumila. (c) The representiitive of P. pumila 

 upon the plains of Nebraska and in the Rocky Mountains is a 

 veiy low plant with short thick leaves and large short-stemmed 

 fruit, the botanical position of which is yet unknown. It is now 

 in cultiA'ation as the Imi)roved Dwarf Rocky Mountain Cheny. 



29. The TTtah Hybrid Cherry is a fi-uit of uncertain value and 

 doubtful affinity. Two varieties, the black and red, are in cultiva- 

 tion. It probably comes from some part of the western plains or 

 the Rocky Mountain region, but its wild prototype is not known. 



30. Other native cherries in cultivation are: Prunus serotina, 

 the Wild Black CheiTy; P. Pennsylvanica; the Bird, Pin or Wild 

 Red Cherrj-; P. Virginiana, the Choke Cherry; P. demissa, the 

 Western Choke Cherry; P. ilicifolia, the Islay of the Pacific 

 slope; I*. Carolinana, Cherry -La ui'el or Mock Orange of the 

 southern States. 



L. H. BAILEY. 



