TREES AND SHRUBS 



slightly notched, oval, firm, sub-erect; Fruit a drupe, globular, red or black, 

 without bloom, acid, juicy, not staining. 



Leaves alternate, ovate, or ovate-oblong, shortly petiolate, erect, crenate- 

 serrate, acuminate, glabrous, coriaceous, 2-4 ins. long; usually 12 glands 

 at top of petiole, or base of blade, dark blue-green, stipules narrow, often 

 toothed and glandular, very deciduous. Autumn tint crimson. 



A deciduous shrub, 8 ft., or a tree, 30 80 ft. ; Suckers produced freely 

 from the rhizomes ; Branches red, slender, and drooping ; Bark reddish ; 

 Twigs glabrous, slender, pendent ; Buds small, scales brown, smooth ; Wood 

 strong, fine-grained, reddish, easily polished, used for small turnery and pipes. 



Thought to be the parent of our Kentish and Morello cherries. English 

 name Cherry derived from Old Northern French cherisc ; Old French cerise ; 

 L. cerasus ; Gr. kcrasos. 



Chief insects injurious to cultivated Cherries : — Bark — Fruit-tree Bark Beetle 

 {Scolytus rugulosus) ; Fruit — Garden Chafer {Phyttopcrtha horticola), Mottled 

 Umber Moth {Hybernia defoliaria) ; Leaves — Cherry Aphis (Myzus cerasi), 

 Cockchafer {Mehlantha vulgaris), Winter Moth (Cheimatobia brumata), Cherry 

 and Pear Saw-fly {Selandria atra). Fungoid Pest : — AVitches Broom (Exoascus 

 Cerasi). 



BIRD CHERRY, Prunus Padus. 



Woods, thickets, hedges. In its wild state this rarely attains the dimen- 

 sions of a tree, but in cultivation may reach a height of 30 ft. or more. 

 Some of the varieties have racemes of blossoms 6-8 ins. in length. May, June. 



Flowers white, resembling the Blackthorn, £-§ in. diam., erect when first 



open, drooping after fertilisation, of short duration, protogynous ; Inflorescence 



a loose pendulous axillary raceme, 2-6 ins. long, on previous year's wood ; 



pedicels J in. long, erect in fruit, bracts linear, deciduous ; Calyx lobes obtuse, 



glandular-serrate; Petals notched at edges; Fruit a small drupe, globular, 



black, polished, very bitter-sweet, not very juicy, staining ; stone wrinkled. 



Leaves oval or ovate-lanceolate, slightly cordate at base, biserrate, acuminate, 



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