. Contributions to the botany of Vermont. Plants -- Vermont. 72 Bulletin 73 Other species sometimes cultivated are the following plums : P. Simoni^ P. cerasifera, P. Americana, P. augustifolia, P. Jiortulana; the peach, P. Persica ; and the apricot, P. Armeniaca. CANADA PLUM (wiLD OR HORSE plum). Prunus Americana nigra Waugh, P. nigra Ait., P. Americana Marsh, in part, according to Gray's Manual. The Canada plum, found frequently in Vermont, is a small tree or shrub, with grayish-brown bark and short, spiny branchlets. It may be recognized by its broad coarse leaves, sometimes four inches long
. Contributions to the botany of Vermont. Plants -- Vermont. 72 Bulletin 73 Other species sometimes cultivated are the following plums : P. Simoni^ P. cerasifera, P. Americana, P. augustifolia, P. Jiortulana; the peach, P. Persica ; and the apricot, P. Armeniaca. CANADA PLUM (wiLD OR HORSE plum). Prunus Americana nigra Waugh, P. nigra Ait., P. Americana Marsh, in part, according to Gray's Manual. The Canada plum, found frequently in Vermont, is a small tree or shrub, with grayish-brown bark and short, spiny branchlets. It may be recognized by its broad coarse leaves, sometimes four inches long and two or three inches wide. The flowers are abundant, large and strong, of a fine pinkish color, and ap- pear about the first week in May. The fruit, often an inch in diameter, ripens in August. It is sometimes rather bitter, but occasional trees bear good eatable CANADA PLUM Leaves, flowers and fruit, X ^^. WILD RED CHERRY (bird CHERRY). PruHUS Peunsylvanica Linn The wild red cherry, a small, slender tree, is quite generally distributed from the rocky woods of Newfoundland to North Carolina. It is common in all parts of Vermont where it is often only a roadside shrub. The flowers ap- pear in May in beautiful white clusters on long pedicels. The fruit, which ripens in midsum- mer, is small and globular, becoming bright red when mature. This tree is distinguished from the other cherries by its slender and more graceful form,by its lighter colored, close- growing bark, often covered with transverse wild red cherry scars (lenticels), by its small flower^^ in spread- Reaves, flowers and fruit, x <^j ing clusters and by its very small globular fruit similarly Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original University of Vermont. Botany Dept; Middlebury College. Burlington, Vt. : Botanica
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