pennock's DWARF CHERRY -41 



consider this cherry not only of prospective value 

 for its fruit, bul of immediate value as a hardy 

 Bhrub." 



Professor Budd and others suggest its use as a 

 dwarf Btock for cherries, while it is found to grow 

 well, for a time, at least, upon the peach. Finally, 

 Charles E. Pennock, of Bellvue, Colorado, introduced 

 the "Improved Dwarf Rockj Mountain cherry," a 

 description and history of which follow, made in 1892, 

 by the presenl writer, in his "Cultivated Native Plums 

 and Cherries" (Bulletin 38, Cornell Experiment Sta- 

 tion : 



Mr. Pennock's "Improved Dwarf Rocky .Moun- 

 tain cherry" is the only named cultivated form, so 

 far as I know, of pure Thrunus Besseyi. His iir>t 

 account of this fruit, as given in the "American 

 Farm and Horticulturist" for April, 1892, is as fol- 

 lows: "I have never seen a bush more than four feel 

 high. They should be planted about eight feel apart, 

 a> they grow on the ground. The first I ever saw or 

 heard of ii was in 1878. I was making and floating 

 railroad ties down the Cache la Poudre* river, in the 

 mountains, about eight miles from mj present farm. 

 I thought at that time they were the most valuable 

 fruit I ever saw growing wild. I got a start of these 

 cherries, and have been improving them bj planting 

 l>itv) «.!' the best fruit. Thej varj somewhat in 

 size, flavor, and season of ripening, and are capable 

 of great improvement. I have known onlj one bush 

 that was not good in mj experience with it. We 

 have nearly all kinds of fruit, but we like the eherrj 

 • out of hand when fully ripe better than an> of 

 it- season. It ripens a month later than BnTorello 

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