i4b ROSE FAMILY. 



smooth ; fruits a half inch in diameter, deep dull purple, and very 

 glaucous, with a tough skin antl usually acerb flesh ; stone cherry-like, 

 but distinctly margined, entirely free from the flesh. Cult, sparingly for 

 ornament and for fruit. 



§ i. Fascicled Cherries, Edible. Flowers usually fascicled or umbel- 

 late, stalked, usually appearing with the leaves, the latter conduplicate 

 in the bud ; fruit small and mostly globular, and nearly always smooth 

 and destitute of bloom; the stone nearly or quite spherical and mostly 



^^'"^^'''- * Shrubs, native. 



P. ptimila, Linn. Dwarf or Sand Cherry. A straggling shrub, 

 usually with decumbent base, the stronger branches erect, the plant 

 finally reaching a height, perhaps, of 6 or 8 feet ; flowers small, on 

 slender stalks, with the leaves somewhat preceding them ; leaves long, 

 oblanceolate, thick in texture and veiny, sharply serrate ; fruit mostly 

 black, the size of a small Garden Cherry, varying from astringent to sweet. 

 Along rivers and coasts, in the N. States. Cult, for fruit and flowers. 



P. cunedta, Raf. A slender, upright shrub, with larger flowers and 

 short-obovate or spatulate, thin leaves, which are less prominently toothed. 

 Grows in bogs and other cool land in the N. States. 



* Small trees. 



+- Garden or exotic cherries, grown only for ornament. 



P. subhirtella, Miq. (or P. pendula). Rosebud, or Japanese Weep- 

 ing Rose-flowered Cherry. A handsome tree, with tortuous or 

 weeping branches, and very early rose-colored flowers in simple umbels 

 on slender hairy bractless pedicels, the calyx funnel-form and red ; petals 

 obcordate, notched ; leaves ovate (or oblong-ovate on strong shoots), 

 veiny and slightly hairy below, prominently pointed and rather coarsely 

 sharp-toothed. Japan. 



P. Pseudo-Cerasus, Lindl. Japanese Flowering Cherry. A strong 

 tree with much the aspect of a Sweet Cherry ; cult, from China and 

 Japan for its very large and pretty rose-colored double (rarely single) 

 flowers, which are borne in a stalked and more or less branching umbel- 

 like cluster, with large obovate, jagged bracts ; leaves large and veiny, 

 dull, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with very sharp teeth or often even 

 jagged, and prominent toothed or laciniate stipules. Var. Siebdidi, 

 Maxim., differing in having the young growth pubescent, is also in 

 cultivation. 



P. semperflorens, Ehrh. Ever-flowering or All Saint's Cherry. A 

 small tree with leaves like the Morello Cherry (those on the flowering 

 shoots smaller and more jagged), but producing flowers more or less con- 

 tinuously throughout the summer. These late flowers are solitary, with 

 conspicuous, glandular-serrate calyx lobes ; fruit small, red, and sour. 

 Jfrobably derived from the next. 



•♦- t- Garden or exotic cherries grown chiefly for fruit. {Double-flowered 



forms occur.) 



t-f Flower-clusters disposed along the branches. 



P. Cerasus, Linn. Sour, Pie, Morello and Early Richmond Cher- 

 ries. Griottes. a low-headed tree, with spreading grayish branches ; 

 flowers in small clusters from lateral buds, mostly in advance of the 

 leaves, the persistent bud-scales small ; leaves hard and stiff, short-ovate 

 or ovate-obovate, the point rather abrupt, smooth, and more or less 

 glossy, light or grayish green ; fruit roundish, red, in various shades, 

 tart. , Eu. 



P. Avium, Linn. Mazzard, Sweet, Heart and Bigarreau Cherries. 

 SoiGKES or Geans. Taller, with a more erect growth, and reddish browii. 



