28 Trees with Simple Leaves. [A n 



A tree fifty to eighty feet high. The wood is 

 light and hard, of a brown or reddish tinge, becoming 

 darker with exposure, and of very great value in cabinet- 

 work and interior finish. It is now becoming scarce, so 

 that stained birch is often used as a substitute. The 

 bitter aromatic bark is used as a valuable tonic ; " cherry 

 brandy " is made from the fruit. 



Fig. 13. Wild Red Cherry, Bird Cherry, Pin Cherry. 

 P. Pennsylvanica, L. 



Leaves, SIMPLE ; ALTERNATE, or alternate in pairs ; EDGE 



FINELY AND SHARPLY TOOTHED. 



Outline, narrow egg-shape. Apex, taper-pointed. Base, 

 rounded or slightly pointed. 



Leaf-stem, grooved above. 



Leaf, two to six inches long, shining and smooth and of 

 about the same shade of green on both sides. 



Bark, reddish-brown and smooth, with swollen, rusty- 

 colored dots, and usually stripping, like that of the 

 garden cherry, around the trunk. 



Flowers, white, on stems about one inch or more in 

 length, in nearly stemless clusters. May. 



Fruit, the size of a large pea, light red, on long stems 

 (about three fourths to one inch long), sour, in 

 clusters of two to five at the sides of the branches, 

 and usually from the base of the leaf-stems ; seldom 

 abundant. July. 



Found, Common in all northern forests. In Northern 

 New England it quickly occupies burned-out pine 

 regions. 

 A slender tree, usually twenty to twenty-five feet 



high, of no value as timber. 



