The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE BEACH PLUM {Prunus maritima) The white flowers are succeeded by little globular, sweet fruits, coated with a pale bloom. This scraggly seaside plum is always shrubby. THE WILD-GOOSE PLUM {Prunus hortulana) This is a natural hybrid between the wild red plum and the Chickasaw plum. Theleaves are large, thin and flat, and the fruit is thick-skinned, sour and juicy. It is the parentOf the Miner and Wayland groups of garden plums ALLEGHANY SLOE (Prunus Alleghaniensis) The winter buds
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . THE BEACH PLUM {Prunus maritima) The white flowers are succeeded by little globular, sweet fruits, coated with a pale bloom. This scraggly seaside plum is always shrubby. THE WILD-GOOSE PLUM {Prunus hortulana) This is a natural hybrid between the wild red plum and the Chickasaw plum. Theleaves are large, thin and flat, and the fruit is thick-skinned, sour and juicy. It is the parentOf the Miner and Wayland groups of garden plums ALLEGHANY SLOE (Prunus Alleghaniensis) The winter buds of this little black-fruited plum The Plums and the Cherries Europe before it came to us. Now France ranks second toCalifornia. Prunes are dried plums. Only certain sweet andfleshy species can be profitably dried. Peaches, almonds, nectarines and apricots, all stone fruits,and Old World relatives of plums, have been introduced intocultivation here. The almond, with its dry, woody flesh, iscommercially the most valuable species in the genus. Bitteralmonds yield almond oil and hydrocyanic acid. The pit of thesweet almond is one of the most important nuts. THE CHERRIES The Wild Red Cherry, Bird, or Pin Cherry (Prunus Penn-sylvanica, Linn.)—A slender, narrow or round-headed t
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