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The Rural Publishing Company.
Lawson Valentine, President.
Elbert S. Carman, Secretary.
L.H. Bailey.
Hadwin Houghton.
Edgar H. Libby, Treas. and Manager.
Times Building, New York.

The American Garden
L.H. Bailey, Editor

Ithaca, N.Y. Dec. 16 1891

Dear Dr Bessey:

I have looked over your cherry carefully and it confirms my former conviction that it is an undescribed species. I am now making a bulletin upon the native prunuses of value in cultivation and propose to call this one P. Bessey. There is in cultivation a "sandhill" or "Utah Hybrid"