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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART in. 



Sjjec. Char., ^c. Leaves cordate, apiculated, shining, serrated, and, when yoiuig, 

 pubescent beneath. Peduncles corymbose. Calyx glabrous inside. Fruit 

 warted and bony. (Don's Alill., ii. p. 622.) The flowers are white, slightly 

 tinted with pink ; and they appear in April and May. It was introduced in 

 1820. The tree is a native of China and Cochin-China ; and grows to the 

 height of 15 ft. or 20 ft. In the Botanical liegister. Dr. Lindlcy observes 

 that P. sinensis differs from the common pear in having longer and greenish 

 branches, and larger, more lucid, and almost evergreen leaves; insipid, 

 apple-shaped, warted, very gritty fruit ; and a calyx, the inside of which is 

 destitute of the down that is found on all the varieties of the European 

 pear. The tree is perfectly hardy, and it is ornamental; but it is worthless 

 as a fruit tree. (Bot. Beg., t. 12+8. ) The tree vegetates very early in spring; 

 when it is easily recognised by the deep rich brown of its young leaves and 

 shoots. {Hort. Trans., vol. vi. p. 397.) Royle says, this is the only kind of 

 pear known in the gardens of India, into which it was introduced from 

 China ; and that it more nearly resembles the English baking pear than any 

 other. (I//i(sl., p. 206.) 



t 9. P. noLLWYLLERiA\NA Dcc. The BoUwyller Pear Tree. 



Identification. Dec. Fl. Fr. Suppl., p. 5oO. ; Pro<i., 2. p. 634. ; N. Du Ham., fi. p. 191. ; Don's Mill., 



2. p. .5'22. 

 Si/nnni/mcs. P. bollwylleriana J. Bauh. Hist., 1. p. 59. ic. ; P. Pollvena Lin. Mant, SSt. ; P. auricu- 

 ' liiris Knoop. Pomoi., -2. p. ;38. t 4., according to Reichenbach. 



Engravings. J. Bauh. Hist., ic. ; Knoop. Pomol, 2. p. 38. t. 4., according to Reichenbach ; N. Du 

 Ham., 6. t. 58. ; and our plate of this species in Vol. II. 



Spec. Char., S(c. Buds downy. Leaves ovate, coarsely serrated, tomen- 

 tose beneath. Flowers many in a corymb. Fruit top-shaped, small, 

 yellowish within. {Dec. Prod., ii. p. 6.34'.) Cultivated in the BoUwyller 

 Gardens, from the time of J. Bauhin ; and, according to Du Hamel, 

 named either from the village of BoUwyller, in Alsace, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of which it was found in a hedge, as we are informed by 

 Dr. Lippold ; or after a baron of that name, in whose garden it was first 

 cultivated. It is a very distinct variety, with large rough leaves, having 

 somewhat the appearance of those of the apple. The fruit is turbinate, 

 small, orange yellow, and unfit to eat. The tree produces fewer branches 

 than any other species or variety of pear ; and these branches are upright, 

 thick, and rigid. It has been in cultivation since 1786, having been intro- 

 duced by GraefTer, gardener to the Earl of Coventry, at Crooni, and after- 

 wards to the King of Naples. There is a fine tree of this species at Ken- 

 wood, 26 ft. high ; another, of the same height, at White Knights ; and one 

 in the Oxford Botanic Garden, 34 ft. high. 



i 10. P. CREVA^TA Don. The notched-leaved Pear Tree. 



Identification. 

 Engravings. 



D. Don. Prod. FL Nep., p. 237. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 634. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 622. 

 Bot. Reg., t. 16.55. ; and our figs. 638, 639. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branchlets whitely tomentose. Leaves oval, acute, crenated; 

 glabrous above ; whitely tomentose beneath when young. Petioles long. 



Cor}Tnbs simple, and 

 638 ,^^.^W?^4<^ _ woolly. Sepals ovate, «; u" 



subacute. (Dec.^Prod, \^ 



ii. p. 634.) A native 



of Suembu,in Upper 



Nepal,; and found 



from an elevation 



of nearly 12,000 ft. 



downward to 9000ft., 

 y. .- /f "'*^R~/ ^"<1 lower. Intro- 



duced into Britain in S 639 



1820. It approaches to P. bollwylleriana; but its leaves are crenated, and 

 not serrated ; and its flowers are more numerous. The fine large leaves 



