. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PRUNUS PBUNUS 1453 Sweet Cherrj {Prunus Avium). Fls. white or blush, showy. 1873:351 (as Cefastts Lannesiana) ; 1875: 390 (erroneously as var.); 1877: 390. 21:2238-9 (as Cerasus Ca- proniaua var.). Gn. 52, p. 408. Var. Sieboldi, Maxim. (Cirasus Sie- holdl^ Carr. C. Japdniea, Hort. of some. C
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. PRUNUS PBUNUS 1453 Sweet Cherrj {Prunus Avium). Fls. white or blush, showy. 1873:351 (as Cefastts Lannesiana) ; 1875: 390 (erroneously as var.); 1877: 390. 21:2238-9 (as Cerasus Ca- proniaua var.). Gn. 52, p. 408. Var. Sieboldi, Maxim. (Cirasus Sie- holdl^ Carr. C. Japdniea, Hort. of some. C. Wdtereri^ Hort. P. panieu- lata, Hort., not Tliunb.). Differs in having young Ivs. pubescent, and the shoots pubescent even until fall, tho Ivs. relatively short and broad. Not uncommon in cult. 10:800. 1806:371. 26. Piiddum, Eoxbg. A Himalayan representative of P. Pseudo-Cerasiis, described by Hooker as a large tree of brilliant appearance in flower, gla- brous except the pubenilous young shoots, the rose-red or white flowers solitary, fascicled or umbelled, the calyx-tube narrowly campanulate and the petals obovate or linear-oblong: Ivs. ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- late, caudate-acuminate, sharply ser- rate, glabrous, 3-o-in. long, the petiole with 2^ glands: fr. oblong or ellipsoid, obtuse at both ends, with scanty yel- low or reddish acid flesh: stone bony and furrowed. Temperate Himalaya, 3,000-8,000 catalogued in Southern Calif., with the statement that the tree "blossoms in November and ripens its fruit in ; Hooker (Fl. Brit. India) places it with species having "flowers appearing before the ; EB. Trees grown for fruit ipomologi- cal species), hut known also in ornamental forms. 27. Avium, Linn. Sweet Cheery. Mazzard. Pigs. 420, 428, 431, 1999. Tall, robust tree with red-brown bark, the young trees with a strong central leader and pyramidal growth, the old seedling trees sometimes becoming 2 ft. and more i
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