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Ray says that it has been obsen^ed to grow in many 

 places in the mountainous parts of Cornwall ; and by 

 Dr. Plot, to grow wild in the Moorlands in Stafford- 

 shire. There is a solitary tree in the middle of the 

 Forest of Wire, near Bewdley, but there are evident 

 marks of that tree having been planted there. 



The tree blossoms in May, and the fruit, in taste, 

 is somewhat like a medlar, but inferior. 



I have called it Pyrus Domestica, in conformity 

 to the opinion of Dr. Smith and Crantz, and in which 

 Professor Martyn concurs, though, in his Dictionar}^, 

 he has continued the name of Sorbus. 



Of this Order is the Pear and Apple tree, 

 both classed by Linnaeus in two species under the 

 Genus Pyrus, Pyrus communis and Pyrus malus."^ 

 Of Apples and Pears the kinds are very numerous, 

 but that which makes an obvious difference in the 



luxuriance may occasionally have one or two more. In the 

 Apple, Pear, and Medlar, some species of the Same Genus have 

 five, others three, two, or only one pistillum, and a correspond- 

 ing number of seeds. 



" Apples were common in England before the arrival of 

 the Romans, and in the Welsh, Cornish, Armorican, and Irish, 

 the word apple, has one common etymology. The present 

 site of Glastonbury was distinguished before the arrival of the 

 P.omans by the title of Avallonia, or the Apple-orchard. Before 

 the third century the fruit seems to have i)een in ,;eneral re- 

 quest over the Island. In the sixth century Apples were praised 

 by MjrJhh Uyihty a Welsh bard. 

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