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and in another (Gioiko) the color is yellow with a green 

 band down each petal. In both the flowers are 

 double. Prunus Sieboldii and P. Lannesiana together 

 with their forms are trees from twenty to thirty feet 

 tall, with wide-branching heads, and in Japan they 

 grow rapidly but are not long lived. 



In the Occident we have not been very successful 

 in cultivating the double-flowered forms of these 

 Japanese Cherries and from information gained dur- 

 ing my recent visit to Japan I am convinced that our 

 want of success heretofore has been due to the fact 

 that for our climate they have always been grafted 

 on the wrong stock. 



All the single-flowered sorts of these Japanese 

 Cherries fruit freely with us and should be increased 

 by seeds, for seedling trees of these Cherries grow 

 more freely and more satisfactorily than those raised 

 by other means. All the double or semi-double 

 flowered kinds should be grafted or budded on P. 

 sermlata, var. sachalinensis. If this be followed I 

 make bold to say that these Cherries will thrive as 

 well, grow as freely, and live as long as they do in 

 Japan. 



One other species of Japanese Cherry deserves 

 mention and that is P. incisa, which is abundant 

 on the lower slopes of Fuji-san and the immediate 



