dwarf cherry

noun

1. sand cherry.

Example Sentences

They will never make such large trees, however, and those who would enjoy dwarf cherry trees, should combine the different methods of producing the result.

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Plates 94, 95;Dwarf Cherry, 97;Bird Cherry, 98.

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As with most plants which have been long and extensively cultivated, it is a matter of difficulty, if not an impossibility, to identify the parent stock of the numerous cultivated varieties of cherry; but they are generally referred to two species: Prunus Cerasus, the wild or dwarf cherry, the origin of the morello, duke and Kentish cherries, and P. Avium, the gean, the origin of the geans, hearts and bigarreaus.

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Both species grow wild through Europe and western Asia to the Himalayas, but the dwarf cherry has the more restricted range of the two in Britain, as it does not occur in Scotland and is rare in Ireland.

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