1154 



PYRUS* grandifdlia. 



Large-leaved Pyrus 



ICOSANDRIA DI.PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosace;e. Pomacece 

 P YR US. Supra , vol. 6.fol. 514 



P. 



4 



Sect. Aronia Nob. (Adenorachis Decand. prodr. 2. 627.) 

 grandifolia ; caule erecto ramisque glabriusculis, foliis oblongis ob- 

 ovatisve acutis glabris, fructibus sphaeiicis calycibusque glabris, corymbis 

 oligocarpis coarctatis, disco villoso. Lindley in Hort. Trans, vol. 7, p. 233. 

 Frutex 4-5-pedalis. Rami erecti, fortes, fusci, leviter pubescentes. 



atroviridia, lata, oblonga v. obovata, abrupt^ acuminata, 

 serrulata, suprd glabra, glandulis costcc paucissimis.^ 



Discus et ovarii 



Folia magna 

 utrinque glabra, 



Flores, pro sectione, majusculi. Calyces glaberrimi. 

 apex villosi. Fractus atropurpur^i. 



A very handsome hardy shrub 



mbling Py 



Chamsemespilu 



the general appearance 



of 



fol 



■8 



but far more beautiful than that species. It belongs to 

 the tribe of Pyruses, of which P. arbutifolia is the repre- 

 sentative, and is the most valuable of all the species of 

 that division which have lately been described. It grows 

 to the height of 4 or 5 feet, and is quite hardy, expandmg 

 its blossoms about the middle of May. Propagated by 

 grafting or budding upon the Whitethorn, or any similar 



stock. 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, from a plant that had been received from 



Pyrus Is by the lexicographers derived from i7r,li, the Greek name of 

 the pear ; the x at the beginning being omitted by apocope and an r 

 inserted in the middle. But De Theis, with much more plausibihty, traces 

 it to peren, the Celtic name of the pear ; whence he says the Latms formed 

 pyrus, the French poire, the Anglo-Saxons pere, and the English pear. 



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