THE CHERRY. 



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same plane. The colour of the nerves varies from purple to rose- 

 red and green. As the leaves grow, they droop or take a horizontal 

 position, but even when as much as an inch and a half long they 

 still remain partly closed. 



Several of the rose-red leaf-petioles radiate from the same point, 

 and are surrounded at the base by bud-scales and rudimentary leaf- 



l'LAN OF LEAF OF CULTIVATED CHERRY. 

 (wild cherry leaf IS rather smaller.) 



