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PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



wild state. A low, straggling, thorny shnib, six to ten feet 

 high, along the sea-beach from Massachusetts, southward to 

 Virginia. A handsome ornamental shrub that thrives inland, 

 and in dry, sandy soils, as well as on the sea-coast . 

 P. PennsylTanica, L. — Wild Red Cherry. — Leaves oblong-lanceo- 



Fig. 46. — ^HOLLT-LEAVED CHERRY. 



late, pointed, finely serrate, shiny, green and smooth on both 

 sides. Flowers many in a cluster, on long stems. Fruit round, 

 light red, quite small, pulp thin and quite acid. A small tree, 



