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it can be used as a stock for them. On the other hand larger fruits of 

 the Sand Cherry can be grown when it is budded on stocks of the 

 American plum, Prunus americana. 



MINOR SPECIES 



Besides these well-recognized species of cultivated cherries there are 

 several others that play a much less conspicuous part in horticulture. 

 Prunus fruticosa Pallas, the Dwarf Cherry of Europe, is much cultivated, 

 more especially its botanical variety pendula, as an ornamental and some- 

 what for its fruit. According to Wilson,' Prunus involucrata Koehne is 

 grown for its fruit in the gardens of China; the fruits, he says, are " small 

 and lacking in flavour." The fruits of Prunus emarginata Walpers are 

 eaten by the Indians on the Pacific Coast and the early settlers used the 

 species as a stock for orchard cherries. Prunus jacquemontii Hooker, 

 the Dwarf Cherry of Afghanistan and Tibet, is occasionally in culture 

 for its fruit and as a park plant; so also is another dwarf cherry from 

 southwestern Asia, Prunus incana Steven. Prunus pseudocerasus Lindley, 

 the Flowering Cherry of Japan, is a well-known ornamental the world 

 over and in Japan is used as a stock for orchard cherries for which ptirpose, 

 as we have suggested in the discussion of stocks, it ought to be tried in 

 America. 



1 Wilson, E.H. A Naturalist in Western China 2:27. 1913. 



