The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE CANADA PLUM (Prunus nigra) Note the spurs and the broad, abruptly pointed leaves. The sour, hard-fleshed orange fruits have flattened pits. They are ripe in August. THE CANADA PLUM (Prunus nigra) The white, fragrant flowers open in early spring and turn pink in fading. The stiff zigzag branches beset with spiny stubs interlace, forming impenetrable thickets The Plums and the Cherries thick, grey. Leaves oval, taper pointed, sharply toothed. Flowersin April, before the leaves, in
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE CANADA PLUM (Prunus nigra) Note the spurs and the broad, abruptly pointed leaves. The sour, hard-fleshed orange fruits have flattened pits. They are ripe in August. THE CANADA PLUM (Prunus nigra) The white, fragrant flowers open in early spring and turn pink in fading. The stiff zigzag branches beset with spiny stubs interlace, forming impenetrable thickets The Plums and the Cherries thick, grey. Leaves oval, taper pointed, sharply toothed. Flowersin April, before the leaves, in lateral umbels. Fruit globose, redor yellow, with pleasant taste, but covered with leathery, acidand puckery skin. Pit, with two sharp edges. Preferred habitat,moist woods and river banks. Distribution, New York to Texasand Colorado. Uses: Good stocks on which to graft less hardyvarieties. Deserves planting as an ornamental, and cultivationto improve its fruit. In the woods that bordered the prairie watercourses wereoccasional open spaces, often swampy in times of high the wild plum took possession and spread into dense timber land about was owned by farmers who lived on theprairies, but the plums belonged by common consent to the com-munity at lar
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