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red, or purplish. "Wild cherry. Flowers in 



Very ornamental, and indispensable in 

 every collection. It is usually round-headed, 

 and, if exposed, throws out its branches to a 

 great distance. Its leaves are of a fine, dark, 

 shining green; and even in winter, when 

 shorn of these beauties, its spotted and 

 speckled branches are interesting. Its fruit 

 is very attractive to birds, thus promoting 

 the pleasures of a country-seat in a twofold 

 manner. 



A fine specimen at Bartram is seventy 

 feet high and five feet in circumference. 



It will do well in most soils or situations, 

 and is propagated from seeds sown in the 

 spring. 



5. C. SYLVESTRIS, Seringe. Branches vi- 

 gorous and spreading. Fruit-buds oblong, 

 acute. Flowers in umbels. Variety, flore 

 plena. Flowers double. Double-flowering 

 wood-cherry. 



* I am indebted to my friend, Dr. W. Darlington, for 

 the observation that the kind known as C. Virginiana L. 

 is really this species ; the real C. Virginiana L. being a 

 low shrub. 



