. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1897. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. THE STRA WBERR Y RASPBERR V. Thanksgiving time, remains to be seen. It is claimed that the bush, which grows some four feet high and is perennial, will hold its fruit well after frost. It is perhaps not exactly correct to class the ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHERRY as a "small fruit," since it belongs, botanically, to the plum family—but a small fruit it is, in fact, and the public has been already put on notice that this was not intended as a scientific but a popular paper. The plum generally known as the " Roc
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1897. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. THE STRA WBERR Y RASPBERR V. Thanksgiving time, remains to be seen. It is claimed that the bush, which grows some four feet high and is perennial, will hold its fruit well after frost. It is perhaps not exactly correct to class the ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHERRY as a "small fruit," since it belongs, botanically, to the plum family—but a small fruit it is, in fact, and the public has been already put on notice that this was not intended as a scientific but a popular paper. The plum generally known as the " Rocky Mountain Cherry,'' is the Pru}ius pumt'la, which grows, perhaps, four or five feet high and bears a small, oval, tasteless and worthless fruit. But this is not the Rocky Mountain Cherry that I mean. I refer to its sister, the Pntmts Besseyi of Bailey, which is of much dwarfer, scrubbier habit, seldom reaching three feet in height, and send- ing out numerous laterals as long as its main stem. In fact, as my foreman. Mr. Jones, sententiously remarked, "it tries its best to wallow all over the ground ! " Its leaves are larger, rounder and thicker than those of the P. pumila. As for fruit, it is simply one mass of it, clustering thickly around the stem and laterals. I honestly believe a three- year-old bush will bear a gallon. The size and shape is that of a good sized Bigarreau cherry—larger than a Morello —color being black and flavor dis- tinctly that of a cherry, with a similar pit. It contains, however, both dis- tinctiveness of acid and sugar, although possessing but little acid, and is quite agreeable eaten off the bush. It grows anywhere and yields, as I have previously stated, phenomenally. Up to this season I should have recom- mended it without reservation ; but the present year its blossoms were caught by a late frost—an accident I have never before known to happen to it, as it does not usually bloom prematurely. —Georgia Experiment Station Report
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