1452 



1989. Prunus pumila— Sand Cherry t 



No. 16. 



giiLS closely callous-serrate: fls. small, fragrant, white, 

 iu small terminal 'umbels in May and June (in New 

 York ) , appearing when the tree is in nearly full leaf : f r. 

 very small, dark red, not edible. Middle' and southern 

 Europe and the Caucasus. — Extensively imported for 

 cherry-tree stocks, and sometimes run wild. 



EE. Shape of !i- 



'»■ than Iroad: fl.-clus- 

 tral. 



21. FennsylT^nica, Linn. Cosimon Wjld Bird or Pin 

 Cherry. Fig. 1994. Shallow-rooted tree with slender 

 red - barked branches, 

 25-40 ft. high and some- 

 times VA ft. in diam. of 

 trunk: Ivs. oblong-lan- 

 ceolate - acuminate, 

 light green and rather 

 thin, closely sharp-ser- 

 rate: fls. small, white, 

 slender - stalked, ap- 

 pearing with the Iv 



fr. the 



ize of 



pea, light 

 cnerrv-ren, the flesh 

 thin "and sour and 

 somewhat p u c k e r y : 

 stone oblong. Sandy 

 and rocky lands, New- 

 foundland to British 

 Columbia, and south in 1990. Prunus pumila. var. cuneata. 

 the mountains to Colo- (x Va.) No. 10. 



rado and N. Carolina. 



S.S. 4:156. -Where the tree grows naturally, it often 

 sprouts inveterately and becomes a nuisance. When 

 bruised, the wood has a strong peach-like odor. It is 

 an interesting ornamental tree, however. In poor soils, 

 it is often lit le more than a bush. On large trunks 

 the bark tends to peel in transverse strips. 



22. emargin&ta, Walp. Sometimes 40 ft. high : Ivs. 

 oblong-ovate or oblanceolate, mostly obtuse, closely 

 serrate, often somewhat pubescent beneath: fls. tinged 

 green, appearing with the Ivs. in 6-12 ft. glabrous or 

 pubescent corymbs: fr. larger than that of P. Pennstjl- 

 vanica, almost black when ripe, the flesh thin and bit- 

 ter: stone ovoid. High lands from Montana to British 

 Columbia and California. S.S. 4:157. — Sometimes of- 

 fered as an ornamental tree, 

 rp. Exotic Cherries, 



desirable ornamental subject. The leaves resemble 

 those of P. Cerasus, except that they are .smaller. 

 Known in Prance as Cerisier de la Touissaint ("All 

 Saints' Cherry"). There is a form with yellow-varie- 



loug-uvatt, acuii 



e, usually pubes- 



across, on long minutely pubescent stalks, in small 

 clusters from lateral buds before the Ivs. appear, rose- 

 pink, the petals notched at the tip, the calyx-tube fun- 

 nelform and red : fr. very small, globular, black-red, 

 somewhat astringent. Japan. R.H. 1876, p. 328. Gn. 

 .W:!!!'.!.-!. li.F. 1:19S; 2:487 (old tree). Gng. 2:269. 

 JMi >; 1-:^. :;:ii I, V:ir. ascSndens, :\hikiiH.. is an up- 

 riLl ■ ■' l: M :.■">■. MMi.i:. i:in()::;i:i. :;-j(l,-Oneof 



tl,, . I,. .1 r.uly-il.n,, ■,,,,- tirr.. i.r..,lucing its 



cli:,-'. |.ii,i. i;-.>..i- III |.icitii-i"ii. I >niilh t.ip-worked 

 on i: A,,,u„. llanly iu <_enti;d Niw Vuik. Miquel's 

 name, nublihitlla, is older than Maximowicz's joe«(i7/7a, 

 but Miquel confused two species, and it seems to be de- 

 sirable to drop the name. 



oc. Flower-rhtfitfrA fyrim lateral wlnter-huds, peditn- 

 etiij ,,},.! i„,iriiH, .'-.', fls., with prominent ser- 

 ral, I,, .,.■!.< .tl II,. f.,i-ks. 



25. Pseiido- Cerasus, LiiuU. (P. Puddum, Miq., not 

 R..\l,iri. .1 \i\\L-t Fldwering Cherry. Pigs. 1997, 

 I't'i- ^M.i! _ i^vw'ing tree, like a Sweet Cherry: Ivs. 

 ,,>,,. ' ' _' Mvate, long -acuminate, glabrous or 



II, , Miiin deeply sharp-serrate or toothed, 



til. .ii|.iil.- i,-ii;illy large and serrate on the young 

 gniwtlis: Ms. hirge, pink or blush, appearing with the 

 tirst Ivs. or slightly in advance of them, on glabrous or 

 hairy pedicels, the peduncle branching: fr. spherical, 

 small, very dark red, subacid, somewhat astringent. 

 China. Japan, Manchuria. G.C. III. 7:609; 19:467, 517. 

 (in. 50. p. 318; 56:1244 and pp. 5, 8. J.H. III. .34:139. 

 G.F. 10:463. A.G. 12:402-3. — The botanical status of 

 the trees cultivated under this name is not well under- 

 stood. It is liy no means certain that all of these plants 

 liflontr to P. ' Pseudo-Cerasiis as 

 (li-scrilied by Lindley. Our knowl- 

 edge lit the' trriiup is yet too im- 

 perfect to warrant a thorough 

 revision. 



Var. hort^nslB, Maxim. {Cera- 

 sus serrntifdlia, Lindl. C. semi- 

 lata, Hort. C. Lannesiina, Carr. 

 P.domhium, Sieb.). This is the 

 famous ornamental Cherry of 

 Japan, where it is cultivated in 

 many forms, some of them being 

 full "double. It iliffers from the 

 type in having somewhat nar- 

 rower Ivs.. with smaller serra- 

 tures and large fls. It i.s now fre- 

 quently planted in this country, 

 particularly the double-fld. forms, 

 but it is not quite as hardy as the 



■d). 



23. semperfldrens, Ehrh. Evekbloomtng Cherry. 

 All-Saints' Cherry. Pig. 1995. Small tree or a bush, 

 usually top-worked on other stock, with a straggling or 

 drooping habit, the slender twigs glabrous : Ivs. ova! to 

 oblong - obovate, short-pointed (or acuminate on the 

 strong shoots), irregularly dentate, rather hard and 

 firm in texture: fls. white, on long, axillary and tern 

 peduncles from May till September: fr. like a small 

 pie Cherry, but mostly longer-stalked and smaller, dark 

 red.- Pro"bably a cultivated offshoot of the pie or Mo- 

 rello Cherry, P. Cerasus. By some its parent species 

 is thought to he distinct from P. Cerastis, and is sepa- 

 rated as P. acida. Koch. See No. 28. R.H. 1877:.50. Gn. 

 50, p. 313. Its habit of blooming all summer makes it a 



