My landlord of 6 years ask if we could chop down his dieing cherry tree. So today we followed through and it brought tears to his eyes. What we discovered (after dropping it to the ground) was that this tree, was given to him 20 years ago as a fathers day gift and here we were chopping it down on fathers day.

I was able to salvage a few cuttings and plan on rooting them if they will take. There were some suckers coming out of the ground right next to the stump that are perfect for cuttings, the problem is they don't look like the adult cherry tree. We can use cuttings from the branches of the dieing tree, but none of them are of good quality. We believe the tree is a Sargent Cherry, I have included a link to pictures of the cuttings and of the adult tree's bark.

Our goal is to present stable cuttings to my landlord(friend) a few months from now.

Thanks,

Jeff

https://picasaweb.google.com/jeffmlafleur/CherryTree?feat=directlink