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  Wild Cherries
Nature Bulletin No. 201-A October 9, 1965 Forest Preserve District of Cook County Seymour Simon, President Roland F. Eisenbeis, Supt. of Conservation ****:WILD CHERRIES This is a year of bountiful harvests, rewarding the labor of the farmer and the gardener, and also producing an abundance of wild fruits which may be had for the picking.
To some of us, the last is the tastiest of them all and, a month ago, the outer twigs of the wild cherry trees were drooping with heavy clusters of this fruit.
The familiar Wild Black Cherry is the only one of the four kinds of wild cherries found in this region which grows to be a large forest tree widespread throughout the eastern half of North America.
www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/200-299/nb201.htm   (662 words)

  
  Wild Black Cherry - Plant of the Week
Wild Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) grows everywhere in the eastern woodlands from Minnesota to Texas and is common throughout Arkansas.
Cherry bounce, a drink favored in the Appalachian region, was made by blending fresh squeezed juice with brandy or rum to form a fruit cordial.
To the woodworker wild cherry is a stable wood that holds glue well, doesn't warp, finishes with a smooth surface and is generally easily worked.
www.arhomeandgarden.org /plantoftheweek/articles/Wild_Black_Cherry.htm   (651 words)

  
 Museum homepage
Cherries are an excellent source of compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Pour over the cherries and chill in the refrigerator until the sauce has turned to jelly.Remove from the refrigerator, unmold from the bowl and slice.
Serve the duck cold, surrounded by slices of the jellied sauce inwhich the cherries are embedded.
www.schools.lth5.k12.il.us /bths-east/wildcherry.html   (430 words)

  
 J & J Distributing > Fresh Facts > Cherries
The sweet cherry is related to the wild fruit that was indigenous to the Black and Caspian Seas, Turkey and Iran.
The sour cherry seems to be a hybrid of a wild ground cherry and the sweet cherry that grew in the central and eastern areas of Europe.
Records indicate that cherries were a prized food in a region of China dating back to 600 BC - generally considered a food for royalty, but in this case because of where the fruit grew, local residents cherished them as their summer fruit.
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 Welkom to the FeshPlaza.
Cherry trees in blossom are one of the great delights of spring and, eventually, form the prized fruit which hang in pairs from long stalks.
Cherries are a good source of Vitamins A and C and potassium, and sour cherries contain more Beta carotene than the sweet.
The Cornelian cherry is the fruit of one of the small trees or shrubs generally known as dogwoods, whose yellow flowers bloom long before the leaves unfold.
www.freshplaza.com /2005/26mei/2_producth_cherries.htm   (1745 words)

  
 Vegetarians in Paradise/Cherries History/Cherries Nutrition/Cherries Folklore/Cherries Recipe
Sweet cherries are closely related to the wild cherries that were indigenous in the region of the Caucasus Mountains that lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
The sour cherry is thought to be a hybrid between the sweet cherry and a wild shrub called ground cherry that grew in the eastern and central portion of Europe.
Wild cherries, known as chokecherries, along with pemmican were packed into rawhide sacks to sustain the explorers for their long journeys.
www.vegparadise.com /highestperch56.html   (3712 words)

  
 Growing Cherries in Virginia
Cherries are grown in many parts of the world, but they have never gained the popularity in North America that they have in Europe and the Middle East.
Critical temperatures for cherry fruit buds are 21°F at the green tip stage, 25° at the 1/2 inch green stage (when young shoots are about 1/2 inch long), 28° at tight cluster through bloom, and 30° F at petal fall (when flower petals have just fallen off the flowers).
Bacterial canker is a disease of cherry and is caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv.
www.ext.vt.edu /pubs/treefruit/422-018/422-018.html   (10210 words)

  
 Forestry Related SOL for VA Public Schools
Wild cherries are among the most important wildlife food plants utilized by birds and small mammals.
The wild fl cherry is the most common in Virginia and can be found growing along fence and boundary lines of most schools.
The principal herbivore of cherry is the Eastern tent caterpillar, that feeds on the leaves as soon as they appear in the spring.
www.cnr.vt.edu /plt/foodwebs/cherries.htm   (161 words)

  
 Cherry Charmers
Although wild chokecherries and pin cherries are native to North America, the cultivated species used for commercial crops are thought to have originated in western Asia and Eastern Europe.
Cherries grow in all areas of the world where winter temperatures are not too severe and where summer temperatures are moderate.
The bark of these wild cherry trees has recognized medicinal qualities and the wood of the fl cherry tree is the only member of the rose family distinguished for its economic use in forestry.
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 Cherries by Angelina Jordan
Cherries have been front and center as a favorite American fruit since long before the story of George Washington and his cherry tree chopping confession.
Cherries are best harvested when the fruits are closest to their optimum color, depending upon the variety and the stem detaches easily from the pit.
The cherry is a fruit that seems custom-made for preserving and enjoying all year long with family and friends.
www.homesteadharvest.com /article19.html   (1741 words)

  
 Wild Cherry - Cooking with Herbs & Wild foods
Wild cherries are found in abundance in North America.
Used to baste wild meats or lamb and can also be used as a topping for ice cream or other desserts.
Clean cherries and place into a deep saucepan with the water and cook over a low heat for 20 to 30 minutes or till all of the cherries have popped their skins.
earthnotes.tripod.com /cherrywild.htm   (539 words)

  
 Count on summer for wild fruit of youth
About this time of year, wild cherries are turning from red to fl and I begin trying to beat the birds to the ones I have been watching on two volunteer trees in my side yard.
Wild cherries, wild grapes, plum thickets, flberry vines and watermelons that grew in cotton patches are the memories of a rural or small town boyhood for many of my generation.
Wild grapes were also eagerly sought, especially the ones we called summer grapes (as opposed to the bitter little possum grapes).
deltafarmpress.com /mag/farming_count_summer_wild   (1052 words)

  
 Melissa's World Variety Produce - Organic, Specialty & Recipes
Cherries are the perfect summer treat (gee...do you think that’s why nature gives them to us?)...with their juicy flesh and rich mineral content...and they are oh, so yummy.
Wild cherries are small and almost fl in color and are not as fleshy as other varieties.
Cherries are a great source of potassium, in addition to providing fiber and vitamin A. In folk medicine, sour cherries are used as a diuretic, anti-arthritic, and mild laxative.
www.melissas.com /magazine/index.cfm?article_id=689&Page_ID=73   (505 words)

  
 Disease Control in Cherries, Plums, and Other Stone Fruits
On sand cherry the fruits are brilliant red and pointed, and the shoots are also thickened and deformed.
Cherry leaf spot infections are small (1-3 mm) rounded spots which become yellow and then brown (Figure 6).
Wild chokecherries are the natural reservoir host and X-disease spreads from them into new orchards or other plantings.
www.ag.ndsu.edu /pubs/plantsci/hortcrop/pp689w.htm   (4187 words)

  
 MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - The Wild Cherries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Mark II Wild Cherries blitzed the trendy Melbourne disco circuit with its Cream and Hendrix-influenced amalgam of hard RandB and experimental psychedelia, a style that had scarcely been witnessed with such commanding power in Australia before.
Their Wild Cherries’ music occupies a similar niche to that carved out by their legendary peers The Missing Links and The Purple Hearts, and one which was only later inhabited by groups like Detroit’s legendary MC5 and The Stooges.
This was followed by shortlived “new” Wild Cherries in 1971, and his acclaimed solo LP Plays with George Guitar, followed by a stint with former Loved One Gerry Humphries as part of Gerry and The Joy Band.
www.milesago.com /Artists/wildcherries.htm   (1511 words)

  
 Dwarf Sour Cherries for the Prairies
Unlike apples which usually form good graft unions on dwarfing rootstocks, grafted cherries can be incompatible which may cause the top part to die or a weak graft union results in trunks splitting when they get larger.
The cold hardy Prunus fruiticosa (Mongolian Cherry) is native to Siberia.
Cherries are generally used according to their colour.
www.dnagardens.com /sourcherries0229.htm   (2215 words)

  
 Wild Cherry Bark - Monograph Page
Wild Cherry grows from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick west to Southern Quebec and Ontario into Michigan and eastern Minnesota; south to Iowa, extreme eastern Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas, then east to central Florida.The bark is rough and fl on older trunks, and separates naturally from the tree trunk.
The antioxidant activity in cherries is even greater than that of vitamin E. Wild cherries also contain pain-relieving compounds and a surprisingly high level of melatonin, a hormone previously believed only to be produced by the brain.
As Wild Cherry may have anticancer properties, more research is being done at Johns Hopkins University to study the use of cherries in alleviating the pain of cancer.
www.altcancer.com /phyto/wild_cherry.htm   (484 words)

  
 Wild Cherries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wild Cherries was an Australian rock group, started in late 1964 as a blues group playing at the “Fat Black Pussycat” jazz venue in Melbourne’s South Yarra.
The name “Wild Cherries” came one afternoon when the trio were rehearsing in Gilbert’s bedroom and was the product of a word game with a corruption of Chuck Berry, which became Buck Cherry, which then changed to Black Cherries, and ultimately Wild Cherries.
The Wild Cherries’ crowning achievement on a creative level, it was another chart failure and the group underwent a mass exodus with founding member Les Gilbert first to leave in September 1968.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wild_Cherries   (1161 words)

  
 Wild cherries
As it ages, it shines like mahogany and can last for generations.  The wild cherries from this tree are usually mostly pit with a bare amount of fruit flesh around it.
Finally, there are the two wild cherries known all across Europe, the bird cherries: Prunus avium and the purple-leafed Prunus padus, with its egg-shaped fruit.  Our cultivated cherry trees are said to have been derived from Prunus avium and their variety spans the rainbow of flavor from sweetly sugary to acridly acidic.
The one thing all the wild cherries have in common is that their leaves contain cyanide and are toxic to animals that might chew them.  What's worse is that as the leaves are shed in the fall, the cyanide becomes more concentrated and will thus do even more damage!
www.vegetarian-fun.com /fruitsWildcherries.html   (439 words)

  
 Cherry - Glossary - Hormel Foods
The wild cherries are generally small in size and very dark red in color.
They are usually quite tart, however the well-known maraschino cherry is one of the well-known wild cherries that has a semi-sweet taste, due in part to the added flavorings.
Cherries that are to be saved can be frozen by pitting them, placing them as single layers in an airtight bag, and storing in the freezer.
www.hormel.com /kitchen/glossary.asp?id=33145&catitemid=   (382 words)

  
 Kickapoo Orchard Apples Cider Cherries Raspberries Bakery Online Giftshop
The sour cherry is thought to be a hybrid between the sweet cherry and a wild ground cherry that grew in the eastern and central portion of Europe.
In Japan over 100 cherry varieties are grown, with the number of petals per blossom ranging from the usual five to twenty, fifty and even an amazing one hundred petals per blossom, with colors ranging, from white, to pink, to a pale yellow.
All tart cherry cultivars are self-compatible, that is, they set fruit with their own pollen, only one cultivar is necessary.
www.kickapoo-orchard.com /cherry_page.html   (716 words)

  
 Blueberry Juice | Concentrate | Wild Blueberry | Fruit Advantage | Extract | Capsule | Pill | Softgel | Blueberry |
Answer: Wild Blueberries have emerged as the leader in total antioxidant capacity (TAC) per serving using a laboratory research procedure called Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity or ORAC.
In addition, recent USDA studies show that Wild Blueberries deliver a potent antioxidant punch — in fact they have the highest antioxidant capacity per serving, compared with more than 20 other fruits.
Wild Blueberries had more total antioxidant capacity (TAC) than a serving of cranberries, strawberries, plums, raspberries and even cultivated blueberries.
www.traversebayfarms.com /wildblueberryjuiceconcentrate.htm   (334 words)

  
 Where the Wild Yeasts are!
The unique natural combination of Senne-valley (river), small hills with a lot of cherry trees, and small farms with own hops, cereals, wheat and wooden kegs with fermentation-liquids give the region a micro-flora that is kept in the air and buildings of the brewery-farms for more than 500 years.
The brewing method of lambic is the turbid mash method with the pecularity that the brewer intends to obtain a highly dextrinous wort, more appropriate for sustaining a long fermentation by a mixed flora of microorganisms and leading to the typical lambic flavor.
The beer with the fruits is well-balanced after another 6 months fermentation in the casks but only with sour-dark-red cherries; with a normal cherry-fruit the beer is light pink in color, and the taste-flavour is eaten by the yeast.
www.tiac.net /~tjd/bier/wild.html   (2260 words)

  
 A Cheery Cherry Custard Tart
The live and flourishing wild cherry trees, too, are now filling up with their purplish little berries, and the trick to capturing the fruit is beating the birds to it.
Wild cherries are best for jams and jellies, and I'll write more about that when I'm in the process of preserving them.
While the cherries marinate, butter the sides and bottoms of a 10-inch tart dish or quiche dish.
www.gardenandhearth.com /RuralLiving/Cherry-Tart.htm   (654 words)

  
 Mighty Goods: Amarena Wild Cherries
The groom was a bartender, and these were the cherries they used as drink garnishes.
The texture is dense, and the cherries have a rich, fruity flavor.
Or drop a single cherry into a fizzing glass of prosecco or your evening Manhattan.
www.mightygoods.com /items/2004/11/toschicherry.php   (108 words)

  
 Wild_Slots
There are 3,480 tickets in a deal with 212 instant winners.
“Wild Slots” is a five-tab ticket with seven prize levels.
Winning combinations are formed by combining two identical “anchor” symbols (WILD) with a third designated winning symbol.
www.state.nh.us /parimutuel/bingo/Wild_Slots.htm   (157 words)

  
 The Wild Turkey
In colonial days, wild turkeys were common in North Carolina.
Outside of the breeding season there are four basic types of wild turkey flocks.
poult: a wild turkey chick from the moment of hatching until it is
www.ncwildlife.org /pg10_OutdoorKids/pg10d11.htm   (676 words)

  
 West Virginia Wildlife Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
These wild foods include “hard mast” (nuts) and “soft mast” (fleshy fruits such as berries, pomes and drupes).
Common apple, since its spread and establishment into the wild over many years, is now considered an important soft mast species.
The mast survey in 2000 showed it to be one of the most abundant wild food-producing years on record.
www.wvdnr.gov /wildlife/magazine/Archive/01fall/The_Bear_Necessities.shtm   (1881 words)

  
 Diet of The Wild European Starling
When hayfields are being cut and raked in the latter part of August and early in September, flocks of young starlings obtain practically all of their sustenance from these insects, supplementing it with wild fl cherries and elderberries.
Cultivated cherries form 2.66 percent of the adult starling's annual diet, but, of course the consumption of such food is restricted to June and July when it forms approximately 17 and 15 per cent, respectively.
As in the case of men, however, who are often judged by the company they keep, the starling has been accused of deeds perpetrated largely by the species with which it associates.
www.starlingtalk.com /wildstarlingdiet.htm   (1223 words)

  
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