118 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
oval or obovate-oblong, acuminate, coarsei ee pilose and some- 
what glaucous beneath ; umbels sessile ; flowers cely preceding the 
toavee's pedicels rather long ; drupe roundish ood or subcordate at 
base. 
Birps’ Pronus. English Cherry. Bleeding-heart, &c. 
Fr. Le Cerisier. Germ. Der Kirschbaum. Span. Cerézo. 
Stem 30-60 feet or more in height, and often 2-3 feet in diameter at mo prancing 
eguady: = somewhat het so. oh Ms form. yd ggeo. ic ap a -5 
or 6 inches 3p apg an ‘aly bse 
inch and ahalt Jon nal] paw als ahi ite. Drupes of various siz@ 
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and color, tender mae often very gem Kh sweet or bitterish-sweet. 
Cultivated. Fl, April Fr. June-July. 
Obs. on are said to have been originally brought to Rome from 
city of Pontus, by the Roman Consul and General, Lucuttvs, 
some 60 ms 70 years before the tian era ; and from Rone they have 
istributed over the rest of the civilized world. Our cultivated 
shag seem 0 ey consist of at least Sah original species,— 
viz. the sweet “ English Cherry,” sO safioa==ahe the common Sour 
Cherry. rous varieties—produced by cul (and — 
some hybrids)—may to one or the other of those 
hybrids) —m all referred 
There are, undoubtedly, several very distinct sorts of fruit ; but I incline 
to think the siege habit and aspect of the trees co: mmonly seen seen in thi 
country, w the reduction of te all to’the two above referred 
to; andl shall a es them rk. 
6. P. Cx’rasus, L. nches ais slender and flexible ; leaves 
amg a vovate lanes, mostly narrowed at base, a acuminate or 
hish ; umbels subsessile ; flowers rather preceding 
the a Soieedies cntier shor? ; drupe glo obose. 
Red or Deut Cherry, Morello Cherry, &e. 
Stem 10 — 20 feet high, irregularly branched ; branches rather slender and flaccid, spread: 
ing eaety horizontally, roe Laghainy a roundish bushy top. Leaves Peg zi jinches long ; 
petioles half an inch to ong. Pedicels half an inch to an ee an a h, 2, or more 
trequently 3, in a fasci eda white. Drwpes fleshy, more or le: G, red 0 
rple when are 
tivated. April. Fr. July 
Obs. Peg “ Sour. — is the most common and, for culinary pur- 
poses, th most valuable of the genus. The Morello Cherry is a re- 
an fine variety, with a rich purple jnice—and in the days of 
e ety Bounce,” was a great fa = but, for the last 30 years it 
lvania, in 
rayages using warty. xerescences on the branches 
a of the tree. the re fruit ‘frst failed and since, the tree itself has become 
: ped searce. P, Pennsylvanica, L., the wild Red Ch is a native 
_ tree belonging to this section, its fruit small, sour and tie 
branches, developed after the 
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