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We may caution Canadian growers not to plant largely of these finer 

 varieties of foreign cherries outside the peach belt, for their fruit buds are little 

 hardier than those of that fruit ; but there are varieties which they may plant 

 with profit, to which we will refer at some future time. 



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Mahaleb ChePPy Seedlings are the favorite for cherry propagation with 

 American nurserymen. They are a small, wild tree found on sand knolls and 

 dry rocks, over Western Europe, with white bark, hard, close-grained, dark-colored 

 wood, small black bitter fruit and flowering in short racemes. The wood, leaves, 

 flowers and fruit are so powerfully perfumed that it is known as " the perfumed 

 cherry." The mazard seedling is from the pits of the wild red cherry of Europe ; 

 it is nearly allied to and supposed to be the original form of many of our cultiva- 

 ted varieties. The choke cherr}' is neither the one or the other, being an Amer 

 ican seedling known as the Pninus Virginiana. The myrobolan plum from 

 seedling is an imported plum from Europe used extensively by American 

 nurserymen as stocks upon which to graft and bud plums, prunes and apricots. 

 — Director S. M. Emery, Mont Exp. Sta. 



