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PYRUS coronaria. 
Sweet-flowered American Crab-tree. 
piiat — 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosACEX. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. I. Germen simplex, in- 
ferum, polystylum. Pomum calycino limbo umbilicatum, multiloculare, 
Arbores aut frutices. PoMACEX. 
PYRUS. Supra vol. 6. fol. 514. 
Div. I. Folia simplicia. 
P. coronaria, foliis cordatis inciso-serratis angulatis glabris, pedunculis co- 
rymbosis. Solander in Hort. Kew. 2. 176. 
Pyrus coronaria. Zinn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 687. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1019. Ejusd. 
arb. 265. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 209. Pursh amer. sept. 1.340. Nut- 
tall gen. 1. 307. — Curtis's magaz. 2009. 
Pyrus foliis serrato-angulosis. | Gron. virg. ed. 2. 77. f 
Malus coronaria. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 292. Ejusd. 
arb. 3. 65. t. 10. 
Malus sylvestris, floribus odoratis. Gron. virg. 55. Du Hamel arb. 1. 
A beautifully flowered Crab-tree, found wild in most of 
the forests of the United States of America; but princi- 
pally in the middle States, and more especially in the re- 
moter districts of Pensylvania and Virginia. Its ordinary 
height is from fifteen to eighteen feet, with a bole of from 
five to six inches in diameter. Insulated trees are sometimes 
found in old cultivated spots which measure from twenty- 
five to thirty feet in height, with a bole of from twelve to 
fifteen inches in diameter. 
The tree does not appear to have been any where the 
subject of horticultural experiment, either in view to better 
the quality of its fruit or to obtain new and useful va- 
rieties. Cool and moistish situations in a rich soil are 
those it prefers. The blossom, which is produced early in 
the spring, is delightfully fragrant, and, where the tree 
grows in masses, perfumes the surrounding country for 
miles with an odour said by some to resemble that of 
the violet, by others that of the raspberry. The crab or 
apple is small, yellowish-green, austere, with a strong 
disagreeable smell; is used in confectionary, and, where 
