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I got it as a small cutting many years ago, and it has prospered in the front garden. There are a few cherries that prosper here,
and this has been my favourite. Humidity, rain and canker
have damaged a lot of the traditional Japanese Cherries. This pretty tree was raised by Karl Sax, who was Director of the Arnold Arboretum between 1946 and 1954. In the 1940's he made a series of crosses between P. subhirtella and P. x yedoensis and then backcrossed the progeny with P. subhirtella. He selcted one of the resulting trees and named it after his wife. My tree had to be removed in 2011 when it was unavoidably in the wrong place, it is still on the list of things to replace. |
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