

HE Flowering Cherries are among the choicest trees that 
have come to us from the Orient. Blooming as they do 
in earliest spring, they burst in full glory upon a dull and 
unsuspecting landscape. The trees are quite varied in form: 
they may be sturdy, upright specimens, branching bushes, or 
weeping forms. The double and single flowers range from 
white to deep rosy pink. By a judicious choice of varieties,the 
home gardener may have a display of bloom for several weeks. 
PRUNUS LANNESIANA, MT. FUJI. A | PRUNUS SERRULATA, KWANSAN. This 
very lovely variety of Flowering Cherry 
with large, double white flowers that are 
produced in great abundance. A tree in full 
bloom seems to be covered with snow. In 
habit of growth it is small and bush-like, 
with spreading branches that grow upward 
from the trunk. 
P. LANNESIANA, OJOCHIN. Double; 
pink. Although the flowers of this form are 
only semi-double, they are very beautiful. 
This variety helps to extend the blooming 
period of the Cherries, for its flowers are 
borne late in the season. 
P. SERRULATA. These double pink flowers 
appear before or with the foliage. Black 
fruits about the size of a pea are produced in 
the fall. 
P. SERRULATA, FUGENZO (James H. 
Veitch). In this variety the flowers and 
foliage make quite a strong contrast. The 
large, double blooms are deep pink in color, 
while the foliage is coppery red. The flowers 
appear about the same time that the leaves 
begin to open. 
is one of the most widely planted and best- 
known double Cherries. It bears very large 
flowers—some of them as wide as 2 inches— 
with about thirty broad petals. In the bud 
stage they are almost red, but they open to 
deep rosy pink. The name Kwansan means 
“Gateway to the Mountain.”’ 
P. SERRULATA, SHIROFUGEN. Showy 
clusters of light rose-colored, double blooms 
produced in profusion. The foliage is color- 
ful in both spring and fall. This variety 
makes a good shade tree as well as a most 
ornamental flowering plant. 
P. SERRULATA, YOSHINO. A very early 
variety with single pink flowers. The large 
tree is a fast grower; its strong, spreading 
branches form a rounded crown that is most 
pleasing. 
P. SIEBOLDI. A sturdy tree covered with 
clusters of double pink flowers of good size. 
Very showy. 
P. SIEBOLDI, NADEN. A variety producing 
semi-double blooms, pale pink in color, in 
short-stemmed clusters. 
Prunus serrulata 

Tea 
Prunus tomentosa 
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA 
Fugenzo 
PRUNUS SUBHIRTELLA AUTUMNALIS. 
A most unusual Cherry, for it has the ad- 
vantage of blooming both early in the spring 
and again in the fall. Its semi-double, light 
pink flowers are small individually, but 
they are borne in such profusion that they 
practically smother the tree. Usually 
columnar or bush-like in habit of growth. 
P. SUBHIRTELLA PENDULA. Weeping 
Japanese Cherry. Soft pink blooms make a 
spectacular showing on the drooping 
branches of this tree. The trunk is about 6 
feet tall, and from it grows the large, um- 
brella-like head. Very graceful, and a strik- 
ing specimen when planted on the lawn. 
P. SUBHIRTELLA PENDULA ROSEA 
FL.-PL. Double Pink Weeping Cherry. 
Similar to the preceding variety in habit of 
growth, but the flowers are a deeper shade 
of pink. 
P. TOMENTOSA. Nanking Cherry. A bush 
or very small tree with white or tinted 
flowers appearing just before the leaves 
begin to unfurl. Reddish edible fruit in 
the fall. 
All the ethereal beauty 
of spring and the promise 
of the season ahead seems 
to be centered in the co- 
pious bloom covering the 
Cherry trees. They are 
loved wherever grown. 

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