120 THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF WOOD. 



Wild Black Cherry, Wild Cherry. Prunus serotina Ehrh. 



Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) 



Wild Black Cherry, Wild Rum Cherry (N. H., Mass., 



Cherry (local and common R. I., Miss., Neb.). 



names). Whiskey Cherry (Minn.). 



Black Cherry (Me., N. H., Choke Cherry (Mo., Wis., 



Vt., R. I., N. Y., Miss., la.). 



Ky., Mich., Wis., Ind., 



Neb.). 



Locality. 



Eastern to Central United States. 



Features of Tree. 



Forty to eighty feet in height. Two to three or more feet in 

 diameter. Bitter bark, pea-sized fruit. 



Color, Appearance, or Grain of Wood. 



Heartwood reddish brown, sapwood yellow, fine straight grain, 

 compact structure. 



Structural Qualities of Wood. 



Light, hard, strong, easily worked. 



Representative Uses of Wood. 

 Cabinet-work, interior finish. 



Weight of Seasoned Wood in Pounds per Cubic Foot. 



36. 

 Modulus of Elasticity. 



1,200,000. 

 Modulus of Rupture. 



11,700. 

 Remarks. 



The bitter bark contains medicinal 



valued in bronchitis and other troubles. 



The fruit, agreeable when ripe, is also 



used in medicines and cordials. 



WILD BLACK CHERRY 



(J^runHS Sf retina). 



