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iting y have t en the pains s to cultivate. It is high hice that 
such distopatablc negligence should cease, and that people be 
more attentive to ne which are enj by every consideration of 
inegs d goo nay, even of sheer justice to oe around mie 
2. rie Year’PA, Pers. ee ovate or oval, somewhat acuminate, 
doubly derthte flowers pedicellat 
Harms-recrrep ARMENIACA. Black Apricot. 
~15 feet high; branches rather slender and virgate. Leaves 114 to near 3 inches 
long ; peti oles ra an inch long. Petals white. Drupe subglobose, hairy, dark purplish 
color’ when matur 
Cultivated. Native country unknown. 
Obs. This species has more of ths habit of a Pains or Plum-tree, 
than the preceding, and is repu o be a more certain fruit-bearer ; 
but I have not found it so. It flowers freely; but the young fruit is 
soon stung by an insect, and nearly all falls off before it is half grown. 
3. PRU’NUS, L. Pum anp Cuerry. 
[The Latin name for the Plum. ia 
Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, spreading. Stam ~30.* Ovary with 2 
anata ovules eshy ; stone mai saa even. Small trees 
shrubs. Flowers usually white 
{The Plum and Cherry are in most wie considered as distinct genera ; we follow Dr. 
ao haa Goer recent authorities in arranging them as sections of the genus Prunus of 
él. Penn: Tourn, um.) Drupe usually with a bloom ; the stone 
flattened, or at least wider ie thick ; leaves convolute in the bud ; flowers — 
more or less préceding the dpcse , from lateral mee few or 
le 
* eed or cultivated species. os 
. P. sprxo fo a Branches thorny ; i recon obo wate oblong or ovate-— 
a ceolate, s rrate, at length ae pedicels glabrous ; fruit — 
small, ehaers . wee with a bloom, rena goer stone t urgid acute on one ‘edge. 
Sloe. Black Thorn. 
igs insit?’ tia. Less spiny, the lateral beanie often ending in a thorn 
a ee ves pubescent ; fruit round and black. 
Waste to paces. E. New Bogle, & # 
Var. pomes’tica. Branches unarmed ; ues lance ovate or oral, . 
ails bin serrate ; pedicels sub-solitary. 
— Plum. Damascene, Gage, A, 
. Prunier. Germ. Der F Cirnélo. 
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