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Trees for Shade and Ornament 



of six to eight feet in a year. Most easily propagated from seeds or 

 cutting, and a most rapid grower in almost any soil. It is only semi- 

 hardy north of New York. 



APPLES AND APPLE-LIKE FORMS (QUINCES, MEDLARS, CRAB 

 APPLES, ETC.) 



Pirus (including Cydonia). This is a family of a very large number 

 of species and endless varieties of small trees and shrubs, of wide dis- 

 tribution, furnishing, be- 

 sides our best fruit trees 

 (apples, pears, quinces), 

 a considerable number of 

 ornamentals, both native 

 and exotics; pleasing, 

 some by form, some by 

 foliage, some by flower 

 and fruit. They are 

 mostly hardy, and usually 

 adaptive to soils, and 

 easily transplanted, but 

 they are, like all freely 

 cultivated plants, liable 

 to a considerable extent 

 to insect troubles and 

 fungus diseases. 



Besides the common 

 apple {P. Mains Linn. 

 (249) ), which, with its 

 rounded head, especially 

 when in flower, is a most 

 pleasing object in a rustic 

 landscape, two small crab 

 apples, both with roundish heads, the one native, the other from China, 

 deserve special notice. 



P. coronaria Linn. (250), from the Middle and Western States, with 

 pale red, sweet-scented flowers, appearing with the leaves, followed by 

 a yellow-green fruit; also a variety with double flowers; and — 

 P. spectabilis .\it. (251), from China, the most ornamental in form. 



Fig. ioi. — Pirns spectabilis .\it. 



