CHAP. XLII. ROSA CEH. Py‘RUS. 909 
¢ 19. P. (c.) ancustiro‘t1a Ait. The narrow-leaved Apple Tree. 
Identification. Ait. Hort, Kew., 2. p.276.; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. 24; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 635. ; 
Don’s Mill., 2. p. 647. : 
Synonymes. P. coronaria Wang. Amer., 61. t. 21. f. 47., upon the authority of Willdenow, and Wats. 
in Dend. Brit. ; Malus sempervirens Desf. Arb., 2. p. 141.; P. pumila Hort. 
Engravings. Wang. Amer., 61. t. 21. f.47.; N. Du Ham., 6. t.43. f. 1.; Wats, Dend., t.132.; Bot. 
Reg., t. 1207. ; and our plate in Vol. II. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves glossy, lanceolate-oblong, dentately serrated, tapered 
and entire at the base. Flowers in corymbs. A native of the woods of 
Carolina. (Dec. Prod., ii. p.635.) Its flowers, which are produced late, as 
in the preceding sort, are sweet-scented; the corolla is of a very pale blush 
colour. This sort differs from the preceding one, in having the leaves 
narrower, and the fruit much smaller; also in being subevergreen, and in 
having lead-coloured speckled branches. Notwithstanding all these points 
of difference, however, it bears such a general resemblance to P. coronaria, 
that we cannot doubt its being only a variety of it. It is found wild in the 
low woods of Carolina ; and it was introduced in 1750, by Christopher Grey. 
It grows to the height of 15ft. or 20ft.; and, on account of its fragrance 
and persistent leaves, it deserves a place in every collection. The fruit is 
green when ripe, and intensely acid, like that of P. coronaria; but it is 
much narrower and smaller. 
¥ 20. P. specra’Bitis Ait, The showy-flowering wild Apple Tree, or 
Chinese Crab Tree. 
cgi Get h Ait. Hort. Kew., 2. p.175.; Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 267.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 635.; Don’s 
pitied Salus spectabilis Desf. Arb., 2. p. 141.; N. Du Ham., 6. p. 141.; Malus sinénsis Dum. 
Cours., ed. 2. 5. p. 429. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 267.; N. Du Ham., 6. t 42. f. 2. ; and the plate of this species in Vol. IT. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oval-oblong, serrated, smooth. Flowers in sessile 
umbels, many in an umbel; large, and very elegant; at first of an intense 
rose-colour, but afterwards of a pale one. Tube of calyx smooth. Petals 
ovate, clawed. Styles woolly at the base. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 635.) A 
native of China; cultivated in 1780, by Dr. Fothergill; growing to the 
height of 20ft. or 30 ft.; and flowering in the end of April and beginning of 
May. This is by far the most showy of all the different species of Pyrus, 
both of this and of the other sections. The flowers are semidouble, and 
of a pale rose-colour; but before they are expanded, the flower buds, which 
are large, appear of a deep red. In this state the tree is extremely beau- 
tiful; particularly as the flowers appear early in the spring, when few 
other trees are in blossom. The stamens and pistils are much more nu- 
merous than in the other species; the former sometimes exceeding 40, 
and the latter 20. The fruit is small, irregularly round, angular, and about 
the size of a cherry: it is of a yellow colour when ripe, but is without 
flavour, and is only fit to eat when in a state of incipient decay; at which 
period it takes the colour and taste of the medlar. No garden, whether 
large or small, ought to be without this tree. 
Statistics. In the environs of London, at Spring Grove, a tree, believed to be upwards of 50 years 
old, was, in 1834, 35ft. high; at Kenwood, 38 years planted, it is 54ft. high, the diameter of the 
trunk 1 ft. 7in., and of the head 28 ft.; at Fulham Palace, 12 years old, and 20 ft. high; in Hamp. 
shire, at Eastwood, 20 years planted, and 16ft. high; in Berkshire, at White Knights, 30 years 
planted, and 30ft. high; in Cheshire, at Eaton Hall, 17 ft. high; in Oxfordshire, in the Oxford 
Botanic Garden, 30 years planted, and 25 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 10in., and of the head 
20ft.; in Shropshire, at Golden Grove, 40 years planted, and 25 ft. high ;_in Staffordshire, at Blythe- 
field, 25 years planted, and 28 ft. high; in Suffolk, at Great Livermere, 35 years planted, and 98 ft, 
high ; in Worcestershire, at Croome, 25 years planted, and 25 ft. high. In Scotland, in Perthshire, 
in the Perth Nursery, 30 years planted, and 17 ft. high. Jn Ireland, at Dublin, in the Glasnevin 
Garden, 20 years planted, and 20ft. high; at Terenure, 15 years planted, and 14 ft. high; in the 
Cullenswood Nursery, 20 years planted, and 35 feet high ; in Fermanagh, 20 years planted, and 25 ft. 
high; in Louth, at Oriel Temple, 25 years planted, and 19{ft. hizh. In France, at Paris, in the 
Jardin des Plantes, 50 years planted, and 35 ft. high. 
App. i. Additional Species of Pyrus belonging to the Section Malus 
P. quinqueflira Hamilt. (Don’s Mill., 2. p. 647.) has elliptic acute leaves, and is indigenous in 
Chithong. The flowers are supposed to be white. All that is known in Europe of this species has 
been derived from dried specimens in the Linnzan Society’s herbarium. : 
