| | |display of flowers takes
| | |place in April, and in
| | |about two months afterwards
| | |it blooms again. The fruits
| | |are very abundant, and are
| | |scarlet in colour. There
| | |are several other
| | |varieties, but not of much
| | |consequence.
| | |
P. Avium (the |Europe, and a |Pure |The Wild Cherry is pretty,
Gean or Wild |woodland tree |white; |and it is interesting as
Cherry) |in many parts |April and |the parent of the fruiting
|of these Isles |May |cherries, but neither this
| | |species nor its varieties,
| | |decumana, white, the
| | |cut-leaved laciniata, or
| | |the weeping pendula, can
| | |approach the beauty of the
| | |*double white
| | |(flore-pleno), which is one
| | |of the loveliest of all
| | |flowering trees. In late
| | |April the whole tree seems
| | |enveloped in blossom as
| | |white as driven snow, and
| | |it lasts for many days in
| | |this condition. No garden
| | |should be without this
| | |queen of flowering trees.
| | |
P. Cerasus (Dwarf |Europe and |White; |This is not very
or Wild Cherry) |Britain |Spring |interesting, except that it
| | |is one of the parents of
| | |the fruit