. British trees. Trees. 484 THE CHERRY TREES. HREE species of Cherry are common, Prupus Avium (the Gean), Prunus Cerasus (Common or Wild Cherry), and Prunus Padus (the Bird Cherry). Most ot the cultivated varieties appear to have been developed from P. Avium and P. Cerasus. These two differ from one another in certain details. P. Avium, a tree of some thirty feet in height, bears flowers that open out widely, and fruits somewhat oval in form, with the fissure clearly marked. P. Cerasus is of slighter build ; the flowers retain the typical vase-form one associates with the blossom of t
. British trees. Trees. 484 THE CHERRY TREES. HREE species of Cherry are common, Prupus Avium (the Gean), Prunus Cerasus (Common or Wild Cherry), and Prunus Padus (the Bird Cherry). Most ot the cultivated varieties appear to have been developed from P. Avium and P. Cerasus. These two differ from one another in certain details. P. Avium, a tree of some thirty feet in height, bears flowers that open out widely, and fruits somewhat oval in form, with the fissure clearly marked. P. Cerasus is of slighter build ; the flowers retain the typical vase-form one associates with the blossom of the Cherry, and the fruit is rounder. Other minor distinctions exist between the cultivated varieties, but these are not of sufficient importance to require separate description for the purposes of this book. The Bird-Cherry (Prunus Padus) is totally distinct from the foregoing. Its branch-system is free from the stiff habit of the Cherries already named. The flowers are in racemes—a number of small wide-spread florets attached to a main flower-stalk by short pedicels—and afford a great contrast to their long-stalked cup-flowers, which hang in clusters. Its fruit is smaller, and bears no resemblance to theirs either in its pointed oval form or in its arrangement on the central axis and its often upright position. The Bird-Cherry is described separately in detail. RAMIFICATION. The variety in length of the upper and the lower branches on trees of different species produces an equally great variety in their. 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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