. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. SOUR CHERRY. PIE CHERRY. EGRIOT. Primus Cemsus Fig. 307. Mature leaves and fruit, i ; isolated pits, 2 ; branchlet in winter, Trunk of tree. North Rush, N. Y. Handbook of Trees of the Xoktiierx States ?205 The Sour Cherry is a naturalized tree in theUnited States, having been introduced on ac-count of the value of its fruit, and has es-caped from cultivation. It is a low spreadingor rounded tree, seldom more than 20 or 30 height or with trunk more than 10 or 12 thic
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. SOUR CHERRY. PIE CHERRY. EGRIOT. Primus Cemsus Fig. 307. Mature leaves and fruit, i ; isolated pits, 2 ; branchlet in winter, Trunk of tree. North Rush, N. Y. Handbook of Trees of the Xoktiierx States ?205 The Sour Cherry is a naturalized tree in theUnited States, having been introduced on ac-count of the value of its fruit, and has es-caped from cultivation. It is a low spreadingor rounded tree, seldom more than 20 or 30 height or with trunk more than 10 or 12 thickness. The bark of young trunks is dis-tinctly laminate, but with age breaks up andexfoliates in thin curled scales, leaving aroughish, somewhat ridged inner bark. Thenative home of the Sour Cherry is thought tobe the forests of northern Persia and Cau-casia, but it has become naturalized far out-side of these limits and is found growing spon-taneously in localities throughout the greatevpart of Europe and in northern Africa andIndia, as well as in the United States. It ishardier than the allied Sweet Cherry, hassmaller, more rigid and more upright
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