count of its highly-scented corymbose flowers, and yellow 
fruit, which resembles a small apple, and has the scent of 
one. By culture and grafting, it promises to become an 
acquisition to our tables. From the description in Diosco- 
rides of his peomAov, ‘a spinous tree, with leaves like 
hawthorn, fruit like a little apple, sweet, with three hard 
seeds,” this should seem, as the number of seeds varies, to 
be the very plant; while his geomihov Erepov, from Italy, 
‘a tree like an apple tree, but with smaller leaves, and a 
round eatable fruit, with a broad depression, slightly astrin- 
gent, and long in ripening,’ can only be our common garden 
Mespilus germanica. Tournefort did not observe the thorns 
of the Cr. tanacetifolia, but he describes the eagerness with 
which his Armenian companions collected and ate the fruit, 
and he mentions the trees as of the size of oaks.” 
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