. 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. luU und slendei stciir inland shurt District of Columbia and Wmne peg. â1 he fruit is small and usuallj scarcelj (dible, the flesh being astringent. The species is com mou on dunes of the Great Lakes. It is in cult, as an ornamental plant, for which it is worthy, although it is much attacked by the twig blight
. 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. luU und slendei stciir inland shurt District of Columbia and Wmne peg. â1 he fruit is small and usuallj scarcelj (dible, the flesh being astringent. The species is com mou on dunes of the Great Lakes. It is in cult, as an ornamental plant, for which it is worthy, although it is much attacked by the twig blight (caused by the fungus Monilia). Var. cuneita {P. ciinedia, Raf.). Fig. 1090. More erect from the base; Ivs. thin, oval, short-obovate or spatulate, strongly toothed: fls. larger. Bogs and cool woods in the northern states. Not in the trade, so far form as known. know Var. B6sa83ri, Waugh {P. Bffsseyt, Bailey). Western Sand Cherry. Figs. 1991,1992. Known from P. pioni/a by its more prostrate habit, Ivs. spreading (more erect in P. pumifa), broad and thick, usually elliptic, elliptic- oval, or elliptic-lanceolate: stipules on strong shoots, large and green, serrate: fr. nenrlv or quite twice larger, on , usually .ir at ]i;i-^t edible. -This is the Sand Cherry of thr I'lams â ,,mI iIk- West, ranging from Kansas to Manitoba aihl \'tiih and Colorado. The original of the Iiii|mo\..1 l;>,.ky Moun- tain Cherry, a plant grown for it~ lai-i -wr, t fruit. In its extreme form this plant Ik .li-iinrt. but it seems to intergrade imperceptiljiv /'. luiwila. Dieck. I'TA Ap- ipti( lat larger parently a hybrid of P. Wnt^.nii :lth1 Besseyi. A small, trei- Im-h ; Iv^. oblong-ovate, .short-p"inii (I ,.r ii. arh I rate, slightly conduplic;ii>-. flossy ticulated beneath : fr. cherry-like, si than that of Besseyi (about % or ?'4 i deep mahogany color, with a thin plum-like bloom, a thin flesh and a relatively large cherry-like ston
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