ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHERRY 



mond cherries. The illustration, Ki'_ r . 38, shows the 

 ordinary type of fruit of the Band cherry, nearly natu- 

 ral size. The fruil is ordinarily black, always withoul 

 bloom, and in New York ripens late in July and early 

 in August. It is very abundanl on the sand dun 

 Lake Michigan, where it makes a shrub from five to 

 t'-n feet high, and bears very profusely of variable 

 fruits. Some of these natural varieties are large, 

 sweet and palatable, and at once suggest an effort to 

 ameliorate them. The fact that the plant grows in 



the lightest of -and suggests its use for ] r <>r arid 



regions, which are present in most states, and upon 

 which few <>r no crops can be grown with profit. This 

 cherry was advertised in the Midway Plaisance at 

 the World's Fair. 1893, by .Martin Klein & Co., of 

 Detroit. The plant was said to have probably come 

 from Japan, I>nt it was the ordinary Primus pumila 

 of our eastern states. The plant was recommended 

 chiefly, it seems, for some medicinal virtue which was 

 Baid to reside in it- red roots, although its merits a> 

 a fruit plant were not overlooked. Unfortunately, 

 there are no named varieties of tins sand cherrj on 



the market, and very little attention lias 1 n given 



to it by experimenters. It has less merit as a frnil 

 plant than tin- next species, bul it is nevertheless 

 worth attempts at improvement. 



The western sand or bush cherrj ( /'. Besseyi) grows 

 on the plain- from Manitoba to Kansas, and westward 

 to thi- mountains of Colorado and Utah. It is in culti- 

 vation as the Improved Dwarf Rock) Mountain cherry, 

 introduced in 1892 bj Charles B. Pennock, of Bell- 

 \ii<', Colorado. It ha- received attention at man} ex- 

 periment Btationa Thin upecies is a dwarfer and more 



