5 8 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



and Dahuria, past the Amoor and through northern 

 China, into Japan. Whether to be considered a variety 

 of the prunifolia, or a distinct species, is matter of 

 opinion. The technical differences consist in the calyx- 

 lobes being persistent in the prunifolia, while in the 

 baccata they are deciduous. In the former, moreover, 

 the styles are connate below the middle, instead of free, 

 as in the baccata. Coloured drawings of both may be 

 seen in the Botanical Magazine, the baccata, pi. 6,112 

 (1874), and the prunifolia, pi. 6,158 (1875). 



All the fruits mentioned, so far, are produced by 

 trees belonging to the Natural Order Pomifere, that one 

 which furnishes everything of the apple kind. There are 

 several others, altogether subordinate in merit and never 

 brought to market, but which in course of time may, like 

 the Siberian crab, by cultivation perhaps be improved. 

 Such are the fruits of the different species of Pyrus above 

 spoken of as ancestors in part, of the garden pear ; such, 

 too, may be considered the possible future of that exceed- 

 ingly beautiful and well-known shrub, common against 

 the lower portions of the walls of dwelling-houses, often 

 also independent the crimson-flowered Pyrus Japonica 

 technically Cydonia Japonica. In favourable seasons, in 

 the southern English counties, this ripens abundance of 

 little pear-like fruits, said to serve well for preserving. 



A near ally of the Japonica, introduced from the 

 same country about 1872, and called Pyrtts Maulei, a 



