Sour Cherry 



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Fig. 457. Sour Cherry, Carnot, Pa. 



of woods, from New Hampshire to Georgia and Colorado. Its maximum height 

 is 15 meters, with a trunk diameter of nearly i meter. 



The trunk is short, the branches slender, outspreading and more or less droop- 

 ing at the ends, forming a broad rounded head; the bark is 6 to 8 mm. thick, quite 

 smooth, with a few elliptic lenticels, gray-brown; the twigs are slender, smooth, 

 red or gray-brown. The leaves are thin, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 1 1 cm. 

 long, abruptly sharp or taper-pointed, rounded at the l)ase, variously toothed, 

 resinous when young, becoming smooth on both surfaces. The flowers, appearing 



