There are parts of Clare, in memory, which are made even more glorious by seas of the white blossom.
Edlin tells us that the orchard plum, prunus domestica, came about as a hybrid of that same cherry plum and the European blackthorn prunus spinoea.Īnd surely the blackthorn, not in gardens but throughout the country, in hedges, in odd spots in field corners, in land despised for almost anything else, is the real king. It is one of the beauties of suburbia that produces lovely fruit.
One of the finest of the whites is the cherry plum, called by Herbert l Edlin in The Tree Key, the Asiatic cherry plum. Pinks and whites and blossom laid on blossom. WHAT a wonderful show now of all those flowering trees, perhaps most noticeable in mass in suburbia.
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