Caucasus, which is highly prized for its fruit by the Swabian 
_golonists. He received it from Kashgar and the Plateau 
of Talgar, and the European stock appears to have been 
raised from seed of cultivated trees in the former locality, 
where it is called ‘ Kisil alma,” or red apple. With the 
exception of the leaves all parts of this apple are red— 
bark, wood, flowers and fruit, and the leaves turn red 
-inautumn. Even the flesh of the nice-tasting fruit is of 
a deep, rosy red. 
Pyrus Niedzwetzkyana is hardy at Kew, where it 
flowered profusely last spring, and is just ripening fruit at 
the time of writing this. The fruit actually represented 
in the plate is from adrawing made by Mr. George Massee, 
of a very fine fruiting specimen sent to Kew from Bitton, 
in August, 1901, by Canon Ellacombe. eee 3 
Descr.—A small, free-growing tree. Flowering-branches 
long, straight, stiff, rather thick; bark smooth, very dark — 
purple. Leaves on long, slender petioles, on the fruiting ae 
branches rather thick, stiff, nearly glabrous, tinged red, — 
lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong, three to five inches long 
without the petiole, finely crenately-toothed, shortly 
acuminate, slightly hairy along the midrib ; petiole one to 
two inches long, bright red as well as the midrib, slightly 
hairy. Flowers deep rose-purple, an inch and a half to 
an inch and three-quarters across, very numerous, clustered 
at the ends of very short, lateral branchlets; stalks 
slender, six to nine lines,long. Calyx woolly, white; 
lobes lanceolate, acute, about a quarter of an inch long, 
Petals obovate. Stamens longer than the smooth styles. 
_ Fruit pendulous, conical, one inch and_ three-quarters 
to two inches long, skin crimson-purple, flesh rose-purple 
throughout.— W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, section of a flower; 2 and 3, stamens :—al/ enlaryed; 4, fruit:— 
natural size. : 
