. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. Subgenus IV. CHA>i.«AJiTGr)AH's (inchuling Micro- cerasusj. Dwarf Almond. Fruit small, either firm or juicy, glabrous or pubes- cent: plant dwarf, with sessile flowers solitary or in pairs preceding the Ivs., the stamens 20 or more, the calyx-tube tubular: Ivs. coud
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. Subgenus IV. CHA>i.«AJiTGr)AH's (inchuling Micro- cerasusj. Dwarf Almond. Fruit small, either firm or juicy, glabrous or pubes- cent: plant dwarf, with sessile flowers solitary or in pairs preceding the Ivs., the stamens 20 or more, the calyx-tube tubular: Ivs. couduplicate. 36. inc4na, Decne. (V^rasus incAna, Spach. Amfigdnlitx i,ir,}n::. Pall. A. tiAna, v&r. incAna, Loud.). Shnil. of UMdium size: Ivs. small, the and glandless or bear- >p, the blade obovate- liptic, short-pointed or 1, white-tomentose beneath : with the Ivs. or just in ad dor, about % in. across, the ght red, the size of a pea •n Eu. and western Asia. K ing gliiiids at ih, oblong, fll.| .ir obtuse, llii. I\ sliar fls. mcstly ill L'-. ^ Vance of h- petals eniarLMiiaii- smooth, juicy. Soi H. 1853:281. 25:58. Gt. 44, p. 243 (leaf 37. n&na, Stokes (A m ygdaUts niJiiti, Linn.). Russian Almond. Fig. 2002. Bush, 3 to 5 ft. high: flowers solitary, appearing a little in advance of the leaves, sessile, pink and showy : Ivs. narrowly elliptic or elliptic lanceolate, 2 or 3 in. long, thick and rather stiff, scarcely pointed, lighter colored and the veins prominent beneath, smooth, the edges set with sharp, spreading, saw-like teeth: fls. usu- ally solitary, rose-color, nearly 1 in. across, with or just preceding the Ivs.: fruit small and hard, pubes- cent, bitter, with a large, wrinkled, sharp-pointed, somewhat cordate, unequal-sided pit. Russia and Western Asia. 101. 12:1114. —This plant has been in- troduced into this country recently as a fruit plant, although it pos- sesses little merit for that purpose It is cultivated in Europe for i
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