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| |garden shrub; its spreading | | |Spring shoots are covered | | |in April with double white | | |flowers, each like a little | | |rosette, and longer lasting | | |than the Sloe of the | | |English lane. It is as yet | | |rare in British gardens. | | |This should be worked on | | |the type. | | | The Cherries | | |A beautiful group of (Cerasus group) | | |flowering trees. They are | | |propagated by seeds or by | | |grafting them on stocks of | | |the Gean (P. Avium), but | | |never resort to this | | |practice if possible to | | |avoid it. The small-growing | | |cherries, P. humilis, P. | | |Jacquemontii, P. japonica, | | |P. prostrata, and P. | | |pumila, must be increased | | |by layers; the Gean stock | | |kills them. | | | P. acida |Europe |White; |P. acida would be little | |April |heard of if it were not for | | |its variety, P. a. | | |semperflorens, (the All | | |Saints' Cherry), which | | |blooms twice or thrice in a | | |season, indeed, keeps up a | | |scattered succession from | | |May to September. The first
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