. British trees. Trees. 488 THE CHERRY. the petals open out, the sepals turn back and lie flat against the calyx-tube. At the next stage the stalk bends downwards, and the petals, hitherto cup-shaped, spread out until they lie in one plane. The form is shown in the diagram. The petals are pure white or tinted with the palest rose-pink, the pistil is green, the stamens are white tipped with yellow. The fruit when ripe is red or black (Cerasus has red fruit), and smaller than in the cultivated species, but, like it, smooth and shining, slightly cloven and flattened into something of a heart shap
. British trees. Trees. 488 THE CHERRY. the petals open out, the sepals turn back and lie flat against the calyx-tube. At the next stage the stalk bends downwards, and the petals, hitherto cup-shaped, spread out until they lie in one plane. The form is shown in the diagram. The petals are pure white or tinted with the palest rose-pink, the pistil is green, the stamens are white tipped with yellow. The fruit when ripe is red or black (Cerasus has red fruit), and smaller than in the cultivated species, but, like it, smooth and shining, slightly cloven and flattened into something of a heart THE LEAF. In the early part of April there is still nothing to be seen of the young leaf but its glossy underside. The two halves of the leaf-blade are closely folded together from the central spine, and it stands upright. In this position, with the straight line of the mid- rib as one of its boundaries, and the full curve of the blade as the other, and with its tapering point, the leaf is no less conspicuous for its shape than for a highly reflective surface. This glossy surface is made still more effective by the arrangement of the leaf- veins, which project and prevent the blade from lying evenly in the. 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 Cole, Rex Vicat, b. 1870; Kempe, Dorothy. London : Hutchinson
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