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 | | Strange though it may seem at first to the unbotanical reader, the Cherries are classed, owing to various details in their structure, as related to that great group of plants known as the Rose tribe. |
 | | With these last the Cherries are united by botanists in the genus Prunus, a group mainly characterized by the structure of its well-known fruit, which they term a "drupe." This is simply the enlarged ovary of the flower, the calyx of which has fallen with its snowy petals. |
 | | Avium), he points out that they will readily grow straight upwards if planted close together; and, being a fast-growing tree, is therefore well adapted for planting as a "nurse" for oak--that is, for admixture with the slower-growing, but longer-lived, timber-trees, to draw them up, being subsequently felled to make room for their further development. |
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