916 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Pome globose, scarlet. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 636.) A native of mountainous 
woody places in Gothland, Thuringia, and Britain. A species, according 
to De Candolle, a hybrid between P. intermedia and P. aucuparia ; growing 
to the height of 20 ft. or 30 ft. ; and of the same culture as P, A‘ria. The 
varieties enumerated below, as far as we have seen them, are hardly de- 
serving of being kept distinct, unless we except P. p. péndula. 
Varieties. 
* P. p. 2lanugindsa has the leaves more woolly than those of the species, 
* P. p. 3 péndula, Sorbus h¥brida péndula Lodd. Cat., has the head loose, and the branches 
somewhat pendulous. There isa tree in the south-west corner of the Horticultural So- 
ciety’s Garden, the fruit of which is red. 
* P.p.4arbiscula Dec., Poir. Suppl., 5. p. 144.—Dwarf. Leaflets glabrous ina measure, obtuse ; 
the outermost usually connate. A native of Germany.  Isit a variety of P. aucuparia? 
i (Dee. Prod., ii. p. 636.) 
Statistics. Plants of this kind in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and in the arboretum of the 
Messrs. Loddiges, are from 15 ft. to 20 ft. high, after being 10 or 12 years planted. In Worcestershire, 
at Croome, a tree, 50 years planted, is 45 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 24in., and that of the 
head 35ft. In Scotland, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, one, 15 years planted, is 16 ft. high. 
¥ 28. P. aucupA‘RIA Gertn. The Fowler’s Service Tree, or Mountain Ash. 
Identification. Gzrtn. Fruct., 2. p. 45. t. 87.; Dec. Prod., 2. p, 637. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 648. 
Synonymes, Sdxrbus aucuparia Lin. Sp., 683. ; Méspilus aucuparia Ad. ; Quicken Tree, Quick Beam, 
wild Ash, wild Service, Wichen Tree, RowanTree, Rowne Tree, Roan Tree, Roddan, Routry, Moun- 
tain Service, Witchen, wild Sorb, Whichen, Whitten, Wiggen tree ; Sorbier des Oiseleurs, or Sorbier 
des Oiseaux, Fr. ; Vogel Beerbaum, Ger. ; Sorbo salvatico, Ztal. . 
Derivation. The Latin name, P. aucuparia (the Fowler’s Pyrus) the Frenchnames, Sorbier des Oise- 
leurs (the Bird-catcher’s Service), and Sorbier des Oiseaux (theBird Service); and the German name, 
i Vogel Beerbaum (the Bird’s Berry Tree) ; are all derived from the use made of the berries by bird- 
catchers, in all countries where the tree grows wild, and from time immemorial, to hait springes 
with. It is called the Mountain Ash, from its growing on mountains, and the pinne of its leaves 
bearing some resemblance to those of the common ash, _Witchen, and all its derivatives, bear rela- 
tion to supposed powers of the tree, as a protection against witches and evil spirits. 
Engravings. Gertn. Fruct., 2. t. 87.; Eng.,Bot., t.337.; and the plate of this species in our Second 
Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Buds softly tomentose. Leaflets serrated, slightly glabrous. 
Pomes globose. (Dec. Prod., ii. p.637.) A low tree, a native of almost 
every part of Europe; growing to the height of 20 ft. or 30 ft. ; flowering in 
May, and ripening its fruit in September. / 
Varieties. 
* P.a. 2 frictu liteo has yellow berries, and is continued by grafting. 
+ P. a. 3 foliis variegatis has variegated leaves. 
* P. a. 4 fastigiata has the branches upright and rigid. There are plants 
of this kind in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, which were re- 
ceived from Mr. Hodgkin of Dunganstown Nursery, in the county of 
Wicklow. 
Description. The mountain ash forms an erect-stemmed tree, with an or- 
bicular head. When fully grown, like every other description of Pyrus, it 
assumes a somewhat formal character; but in a young state, its branches are 
disposed in a more loose and graceful manner. ‘The bark is smooth and grey, 
in the young and old wood ; the leaves are impari-pinnate, and the leaflets are 
serrated, except at the base. They are smooth above, and nearly so beneath ; in 
which last respect they differ from the leaves of Pyrus Sorbus, which, in their 
young state, at least, are downy beneath as well as above. The tree grows 
rapidly for the first three or four years; attaining, in five years, the height of 
8 ft. or 9 ft.; after which it begins to form a head, and, in ten years, will 
attain the height of 20 ft. This head will continue increasing slowly, though 
the tree seldom grows much higher, for the greater part of a century; after 
which, as it appears by the oldest trees that we have observed or heard of in 
Scotland, the extremities of the branches begin to decay. The tree will not 
bear lopping, but grass, and other plants, grow well under its shade. 
Geography, History, 5c. The mountain ash is a native of most parts of 
Europe, from Iceland and Greenland to the Mediterranean Sea. It is found, 
also, in the north-west of Asia, at Labrador, Nova Scotia, and in other regions 
of the most northern parts of North America. According to Pallas, it is 
frequent throughout the whele of Russia and Siberia, as far as the Eastern 
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