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PYRUS 



P. HALLIANA, Sargent. 



(P. Parkmanni, Hort. ; Malus Halliana, Koehne?) 



A small tree, 12 to 1 8 ft. high ; young branches purple, soon quite smooth. 

 Leaves ovate or oval, i|- to 3 ins. long, half as wide, rounded or tapering at 

 the base, rather long-pointed, slightly toothed ; the midrib is glandular and 

 slightly hairy above, otherwise the leaf is quite smooth on both surfaces and 

 of a dark polished green above, often purple-tinted, especially on the midrib ; 

 stalk in. or less long. Flowers deep rose, i to i ins. across, from four to 



seven in a cluster, each flower 

 on a smooth, reddish purple 

 stalk I to \\ ins. long ; petals 

 five to eight ; calyx reddish 

 purple and smooth outside, 

 white - woolly within. Fruit 

 round, purple, the size of a 

 small pea, marked at the top 

 with the scar of the fallen calyx. 

 Native of Western Szechuen, 

 China. It was first introduced 

 to America from Japan about 

 1863, by Dr. G. R. "Hall, after 

 whom it is named, but it does 

 not appear to have ever been 

 found wild there. It has some 

 affinity with P. floribunda, and 

 has been known in gardens 

 as " P. f. var. flore pleno," the 

 flowers being often semi-double. 

 P. Halliana is abundantly dis- 

 tinct in habit, in the nearly 

 ^glabrous character of its parts, 

 and it never appears to have 

 the deeply lobed leaves occa- 

 sionally seen in floribunda. In 

 PYRUS HETEKOPHYLLA. my experience, P. Halliana is 



by no means so beautiful a 

 flowering tree as P. floribunda. Still it is highly praised by some writers. 



P. HETEROPHYLLA, Regel. 



A small tree, ultimately 20 to 30 ft. high, whose young branches are 

 covered with a close grey down which persists over the first winter. Leaves 

 exceedingly variable in shape, the two extreme types of which are ; (i) ovate 

 with a rounded base and pointed apex, 2 to 3^ ins. long, f to \\ ins. wide ; 

 bluntly, unequally, and rather coarsely toothed ; (2) cut back to the midrib 

 into three to seven narrow, linear lobes, which are f to 2 ins. long, \ to \ in. 

 wide, finely toothed (see figure). Between these two forms of leaf, which 

 may occur on the same plant, there are many intermediate ones. For the 

 rest, the leaves are of firm, rather leathery texture, and very downy when 

 young, remaining more or less so until they fall ; the pinnatifid form, how- 

 ever, appears to be less downy than the undivided one. Flowers white, 

 -f to I in. across, produced a few together in small clusters. Fruit like a 

 small ordinary pear. 



