The tree from which the present plate was prepared 
has Jong been in cultivation at Kew and is now about 14 ft. - 
high, and no form of Pyrus in the collection is better worth 
cultivating for the beauty of its fruits than this. These 
hang from the branches in great abundance, and when they __ 
have acquired the bright yellow colour characteristic of the 
ripe condition, there are few of our smaller trees that make 
so charming an autumn picture. Among the specimens in 
the Kew herbarium there is one from a tree grown in the 
Arboretum which has the general appearance of the Ringo, 
but has leaves that, when mature, become glabrous beneath. 
Koehne has described, as P. Ringo fastigiata bifera, another 
variety characterised by a pyramidal habit, and, as regards a 
form with more glabrous leaves than usual, suggests that 
the peculiarity may be due to the presence of a strain of 
P. prunifolia, He describes also a hybrid between P. Ringo 
and P. spectabilis. 
The Ringo requires no special soil or treatment, except 
that like other allied species it is subject to the attacks of — 
“ American Blight” (Schizoneura lanigera). This, however. 
is easily kept down by an occasional spraying with an 
emulsion of paraffin and soap. Bis 
Descriprion.— Tree, of small size ; young branches more 
or less tomentose, but soon becoming glabrous and dark 
brown. Leaves elliptic-ovate, rounded or shortly cuneate at 
the base, subacute. or shortly acuminate, sharply crenate- 
serrate, 13-4 in. long, 1-2} in. wide, firm when mature, — 
when young sparsely pilose, but soon becoming glabrous — 
above, beneath more or less tomentose even when mature; 
petiole 2-3 in. long, at length glabrous; stipules leafy, 
lanceolate. Corymbs sessile, 2—6-flowered ; bracts woolly, 
subulate, pedicels 1-1} in. long, woolly tomentose, at 
length glabrous. Receptacle more or less villous, becoming 
glabrescent after the petals fall. Calyx-lobes linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, 3-4 lin. long, villous on both faces, Petals 
wide elliptic, shortly clawed, nearly white when the flowers 
are fully open, reddish in bud. Styles villous at the base 
Fruit ovoid, 14 in. long, 1 in. across, yellow, tipped by the 
persistent calyx. . 
Fig. 1, flowers; 2, fruit in longitudinal section :—of nutural size. 
