The Journal of Forest Science states: Wild cherry trees are growing mostly as admixed and/or scattered trees in our forest stand. However, there are some stands where the wild cherry is a stand-forming species. The silvicultural measures recommended for these stands are not very common and/or very general ones and therefore the detailed analysis of its growing capacity and required crown space was done. Our data suggests that the wild cherry could be used as a stand-forming species and auxiliary (help and clean position) species at the same time. The height/frequency curve depicts two layers (two groups belonging to dominant/codominant tree classes and suppressed tree classes) of wild cherry trees in the stand. The height periodic increments for these two groups are statistically significantly different (p < 0.01) confirming that there is no transition between these two groups, i.e. suppressed trees probably never reach the future crop tree group. The practical meaning of the finding is that silvicultural operations should not be focused on these losers. The same is true of the diameter/frequency curve which basically has the same shape with two peaks depicting two layers of wild cherry trees in the stand. The vertical and horizontal structure analysis also shows that in middle aged stands wild cherry trees which are still vital could be suppressed. Their quality is low but they fulfil their auxiliary role in stands and therefore they could be kept in the stand for the nearest future.