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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ness in hand. The two cherries, Pennsyl- 

 vania and serotina are easily identified 

 because the first has two small cherries 

 on long stems exactly like our cultivated 

 cherry, and the second has a raceme 

 of berries something like a grape 

 cluster. The nurseries do not offer 

 any but flowering exotics, but either 

 cherry grows easily from seed. Collect 

 and pile the pits in sand, proportion of 

 one to four, during the winter and plant 

 in the spring. Be careful not to let them 

 sprout, for the cherry sends dcwn its 

 root and puts up its cotyledons simul- 

 taneously so that it must keep on 

 growing where it sprouted, for to sow a 

 seed that has already put out its root 

 is to kill the cotyledons or first leaf 

 growths and so kill the plant. Some 

 fanciers take the risk of planting in 

 nursery beds in the fall, but they are 

 quite apt to be eaten by mice or dug up 

 by the birds. If kept in sand through 

 the winter, first being cleaned cf the 



outer fruit envelope, they will sprout 

 at once when sown in the spring. In 

 both of the cherries the wood is very 

 valuable for furniture making, and the 

 bark is handsome to look at when the 

 tree is alive, leaves turn a fine yellow 

 in autumn and the berries feed all the 

 migratory birds that pass your way. 

 In location serotina prefers a moister 

 soil than Pennsylvania and occurs over 

 our whole area, while the latter takes 

 the high ground and is only found wild 

 in the northern part of our range. Its 

 principal enemy is the tent caterpillar, 

 which will seek out and kill every wild 

 cherry in a whole county if not checked. 

 As these ccatures live in big colonies in 

 their tent and go out all together in 

 droves to feed, it is not a hard matter 

 to observe when they come home and 

 then burn up the whole colony in their 

 tent with the asbestos torch. 



Two more trees, and then we must 

 leave all the others, regretfully enough, 



The Yellow Willow 



introduced from europe, now indigenous all over the country. the osier for pond dams. ornamental 

 in branches and leaves throughout the year. will grow easily and quickly from shoots wherever 

 it can find water 



