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tracts are white with the blossom of the red cherry. The 

 fruit is not good. The black cherry (C. serotina) is a 

 larger tree, and the wood is of some value, also the fruit. 

 It only grows in Canada West. The choke cherry, so 

 called from the fruit, which is such a strong astringent as 

 almost to choke the eater. This pretty shrub grows in 

 the outskirts of the forest. 



