TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. 



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WILD PLUM. {Plati LXXXJI.) 

 Primus sitbcordaia. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Plum. Hranchesy \'y2^/cei, Oregon and Cali/orniii. Marc/t, .l/ii il, 



liorizontiil. Fruit; Au^.^ Stf>t, 



B(irk : prcyish brown; rough. Ihanchhts : bright red ami marked witli 

 pale IcnticcLs. Lcii'vs : simple; alternate, pctiolcd; hroadly-uvate, i)luntly 

 pointed at the apex and slightly cordate or scjuarcd at the l)a.se ; sharply and 

 singly or doubly serrate ; dai k prcun and glabrous above only sligiuly pubes- 

 cent underneath at maturity. jf'7(>~c'rrs : growing in nearly sessile unii)cl.s and 

 appearing before the leaves. C<i/yx : canipamilate, with five pubesct nt lobes. 

 Corolla: with five white, rounded petals. Fruit: dark biaisli, red or yellow; 

 somewhat acrid but pleasantly flavoured. 



About the autumn colours in Oregon, Mr. E. W. Ilaniniond 

 writes : " The wild plum sometimes becomes a small tree, but 

 is seen generally as a small shrub three, four or five feet in 

 height. It often sets the whole country-sitle ablaze in the 

 autumn with the abundance of its scarlet and crimson colours, 

 mingled, of course, with red and yellow, and garnished with a 

 sprinkling of green." 



In bloom it is also a gay sight, as are an of its kindred when 

 their showers of dolicate, flake-like petals alight. In fading 

 those of the wild plum turn to pale pink, and almost before the 

 earth can have accustomed itself to their presence they steadily 

 fall. 



The tree or shrub is full of vigour and yields in cultivation 

 an abundance of fruit. Upon it several European species of 

 plums have been grafted with excellent results. West of the 

 Sierra Nevada mountains in California and Oregon, where 

 Prunus subcordata is well known, its fruit is yearly sought and 

 made into delicious jellies and jams. 



HAWTHORN. 



SCARLET THORN. RED HAW. 



{Plate LXXXJ/I^ 



FAMILY 

 Apple. 



Cratccgtis coccinca. 



HEIGHT 



SHAPE 



Spreading: branches, 10-30 yiv/. 

 crooked. 



TIME OF BLOOM 



May. 



Fruit: Sept, 



RANGE 



iVcw Foundland ivest- 



'liuird, southward to 



Florida. 



Bark: brown or ask colour; b>- .cen in thin plates. Branchlets : silver, 

 green; glimmering. Thorns: one to two inches long; curved. Leaves: 



