84 TREES AND SHRUBS 



there is a great wealth of beautiful fruiting trees. 

 The Mountain Ash or Rowan tree (P. Aucuparia), 

 when laden with its hanging corymbs of rich scarlet 

 berries is a delightful picture, and it reaches its full 

 beauty in August. Not so well known is the variety 

 fructu-luteoy with yellow fruits. A near relative of the 

 Rowan tree is P. amcricana, its New World re- 

 presentative, but it is not so beautiful. The fruit 

 is almost identical, but the tree is of a stiff and less 

 graceful aspect. The new P. thianschanica, which 

 also belongs to the Rowan tree group, has bright- 

 red, globose berries. Perhaps of all the genus 

 Pyrus, none on the whole are so beautiful in autumn 

 as the Crabs. P. baccata, the Siberian Crab, with its 

 bright-red, cherry-like fruits, and P. Ringo from 

 Japan, with bright-yellow ones, are the best of the 

 true species. The hybrid " John Downie " Crab is 

 also very beautiful in autumn. 



The flowering QUINCES are not particularly at- 

 tractive in regard to the colour of their fruits, but 

 some of them notably those of the dwarf Pyrus 

 Maulei are very sweetly scented. 



Some very handsome fruits are borne by the 

 various White Beam trees (Pyrus Aria and its allies). 

 Perhaps the best of them is P. lanata (or Sorbus 

 majestica), which has flat clusters of bright-red 

 berries. But many of the varieties of P. Aria itself 

 are very attractive. One of the latest additions to 

 this group is P. ainifolia, a neat-habited small tree 

 from Japan and China. It has oblong coral-red 

 fruits. 



