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consider this cherry not only of prospective value 

 for its fruit, but of immediate value as a hardy 

 shrub." 



Professor Budd and others suggest its use as a 

 dwarf stock for cherries, while it is found to grow 

 well, for a time, at least, upon the peach. Finally, 

 Charles E. Pennock, of Bellvue, Colorado, introduced 

 the "Improved Dwarf Rocky Mountain cherry," a 

 description and history of which follow, made in 1892, 

 by the present writer, in his "Cultivated Native Plums 

 and Cherries" (Bulletin 38, Cornell Experiment Sta- 

 tion) : 



Mr. Pennock's "Improved Dwarf Rocky Moun- 

 tain cherry" is the only named cultivated form, so 

 far as I know, of pure Prunus Besseyi. His first 

 account of this fruit, as given in the "American 

 Farm and Horticulturist" for April, 1892, is as fol- 

 lows : "I have never seen a bush more than four feet 

 high. They should be planted about eight feet apart, 

 as they grow on the ground. The first I ever saw or 

 heard of it was in 1878. I was making and floating 

 railroad ties down the Cache la Poudre river, in the 

 mountains, about eight miles from my present farm. 

 I thought at that time they were the most valuable 

 fruit I ever saw growing wild. I got a start of these 

 cherries, and have been improving them by planting 

 seed (pits) of the best fruit. They vary somewhat in 

 size, flavor, and season of ripening, and are capable 

 of great improvement. I have known only one bush 

 that was not good in my experience with it. We 

 have nearly all kinds of fruit, but we like the cherry 

 to eat out of hand when fully ripe better than any of 

 its season. It ripens a month later than Morello 



