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Title: Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed Miller, Wilhelm, 1869- joint ed
Subjects: Gardening -- Dictionaries Plants -- North America encyclopedias
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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shape. The foliage suggests P. cerasifera. A speciesrecently described, P. injucunda. Small, from StoneMoixntain, Oa., and not in the trade, is distinguishedfrom P. nmbellata by its morerigid habit and the foliage, in-cluding the branchlets, is vel-vety-tomentose. In place of thesubglobose drupe of P. umbella-ta, we find an oblong fruit of anextremely bitter taste. The stoneis correspondingly lengthened.
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1983. Prunus Allegheniensis (X 3^). and bitter and free from the stone. Near the coastfrom S. Car. to Tex. S.S. 4:155. —Not introduced as afruit-plant, but sometimes planted for the profusion ofits white flowers. The fruit is not unlike a Cherry in 1982. Prunus Americana, var. nigra (X 13. maritima, Wangh. Beach Plum. Fig. 1984. De-cumbent straggling more or less thorny bush with roughand warty branches and slightly pubescent younggrowth: lvs. oval or obovate-oval, short-acute or nearlyobtuse, closely serrate, dull green, often somewhatpubescent beneath: fls. small, slender-stalked, in few-flowered umbels preceding the lvs.: fr. about )4 in. indiam., depressed-globular (somewhat flattened at thaends), with a slight cavity about the stem, mostly deepdull purple when ripe and covered with a heavy bloom,the flesh brittle and mostly sweet and juicy and freefrom the small, tvirgid, cherry-like stone (which ispointed at both ends), the skin thick, tough and moreor less acrid. Sands of the

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