CHAPTER Vn. 



SAND CHERRY. 



^AND CHERRY (Prunnx pumila). This fruit plant is found 

 ,;^^ in Northern Michigan, Wisconsin, ' Minnesota, the Dakotas, 

 and elsewhere. It is especially fruitful even in the most 

 severe situations. It frequently fruits prodigiously in dry, gravelly 

 embankments ■where scarce any other plant can find existence. In 

 fact it seems to be better adapted to a very dry than to a moist 

 location. In my experience with it plants from rich, moist land 

 have flowered profusely but have failed to set much fruit. It 



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-Foliage and fruit of Sand Cherry. A, Fruit natural size. 



