Complimentary 
NEW SERIES VOL. Ill 
NO. 7 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
BULLETIN 
OF 
POPULAR INFORMATION 
JAMAICA PLAIN, MASS. JUNE 9, 1917 
Double-flowered Cherries. Small plants covered with flowers of two 
of the handsomest of the double-flowered Japanese Cherries can be 
seen in the Cherry Collection on the right-hand side of the Forest Hills 
Road. They are varieties of Prunus serrulata, var. sachalinensis, the 
so-called Sargent Cherry, and are named fugenzo and alho-rosea. The 
first has rose-pink flowers and bronze-colored young leaves, and is be- 
lieved to be one of the most beautiful of all double-flowered Cherries. 
This plant has become common in English gardens under the name of 
‘'James H. Veitch. ” In Japan it is called “kofugen” or “beni- 
fugen. ” The form alho-rosea has pink flower-buds which become white 
as the flowers open. Like those of the form fyigenzo the flowers have 
two green leafy carpels in the centre and these distinguish these two 
varieties from all the other Japanese double-flowered Cherries. There 
are twelve other double-flowered forms of the Sargent Cherry among 
the seventy-five varieties of different species of Cherries cultivated by 
the Japanese for the beauty of their flowers and introduced into the 
Arboretum by Wilson two years ago. In the last fifty years many 
attempts have been made to cultivate some of these plants in the 
United States and Europe but with no great success, and they are now 
imported in considerable numbers every year into the United States 
from Japanese nurseries. Such plants, however, are short-lived and 
unsatisfactory, and from studies of these Cherries in Japan Mr. Wil- 
son became convinced that it was the stock on which they were worked 
in Japan as well as in the United States and Europe that was the 
cause of their failure, and that the only hardy, long-lived reliable 
stock for them was the wild type of the Sargent Cherry. If his con- 
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