CHAPTER Vn. 



SAND CHERRY. 



AND CHERRY (Primus pumila). This fruit plant is found 

 in Northern Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, 

 and elsewhere. It is especially fruitful even in the most 

 severe situations. It frequently fruits prodigiously in dry, gravelly 

 embankments where scarce any other plant can find existence. In 

 fact it seems to be better adapted to a very dry than to a moist 

 location. In my experience with it plants from rich, moist land 

 have flowered profusely but have failed to set much fruit. It 



Fig. i^— Foliage and fruit of Sand Cherry. A, Fruit naturu' .si; 

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