Claim · model-written summary
Japanese varieties grafted on European cherries in Europe and the United States did no better.
Verbatim
e0“In Europe and the United States one of the European Cherries has been used as stock for the Japanese varieties and on this they have succeeded no better”
Title
NA Bulletin of popular information - Arnold Arboretum Harvard University 1916. doi:10.5962/p.320465
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Wilson saw ten Japanese cherry species in native forests and principal collections of garden forms.
- Method / resource All species and seventy named garden varieties were introduced into the Arboretum.
- Observation Few imported Japanese flowering cherries had become healthy, good-sized trees in America or Europe.
- Observation Japanese imported varieties were grafted on Mazakura of Prunus Lannesiana, described as short-lived and susceptible to insects.