WE8TERN SAND CHEBBT 



cherry seed from Utah Territory." H«- raised plants 

 from these Beeds, and noticed that the plants were dif- 

 ferent from those which he had found upon Hal 

 [sland. "I do not consider this cherry of any par- 

 ticular value as if is found in its normal condition," 



h »iit iiiii. — : "but if we could obtain an improved 



variety <>f a similar growth, and as hardy and pro- 

 ductive, it would certainly be a great acquisition. 

 There is m> reason why this should not be accom- 

 plished, for, as I have said, it is nearly related to our 

 cultivated varieties, and a hybrid can, and probably 

 will lit-, produced between them." Now, after tin- 

 lap-- <>t' a quarter <>r' a century, tin- fulfillment of this 

 generous prophecy i- in Bight. 



In 1888, Gipson, in "Horticulture by Irrigation," 

 >p<-aks of thf wild native Colorado dwarf cherry as 

 bearing a fruit "esj tally valuable for pies ami pre- 

 serves, and is often pleasant to eat from the hand. 

 It i- wonderfully productive, and will survive all 

 ehanges and vicissitudes of the most exacting <-li- 

 mate." In 1889, Professor C. E. Bessey called the 

 attention of tin- American Poraological Society 1 1 » it 

 i promising new fruit from the plains" of Ne- 

 braska. It i- only within tin- la>t five or >i\ years, 

 however, that tin- sand cherries have come into actual 

 cultivation for their fruit, although as ornamental 

 plants thej have been sold man} years. Professor C. 

 A. Keffer described a dwarf cherrj in 1891, in a bul- 

 letin of th<- South Dakota Experiment Station, ami a 

 little later Professor Green, of Minnesota, did the same. 

 Moth men had grown it. ami found it to be variable 

 ami promising. In South Dakota plants set three 

 - bore licavih the second and third vears. The 



