| |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