294 PYRUS 



toothed ; smooth and dark shining green above, paler and at first downy 

 beneath, becoming smooth in autumn except on the midrib ; on the flowering 

 twigs the leaves are 2 to 3 ins. long and about half as wide, but on vigorous 

 maiden shoots as much as 4^ ins. long by 3 ins., and sometimes lobed. 

 Flowers often semi-double, if ins. across, pale rose, produced in May in 

 umbels of six to ten flowers each on a downy stalk i to i^ ins. long ; calyx 

 woolly, especially inside. Fruits globose, yellow, f in. "thick, calyx-teeth 

 usually persisting at the top. 



A hybrid between floribunda and perhaps spectabilis put into cultivation 

 by Spath of Berlin in 1888. Through floribunda it inherits the "blood" of 

 P. Toringo, as is occasionally evidenced by the lobing of leaves on vigorous 

 branches. It is a tree wonderfully profuse in blossom, and of vigorous growth. 

 On young trees clean shoots 3 or 4 ft. long are made in one season, at every 

 bud of which there appears the following May a cluster of six to ten large 

 blossoms. It is thus possible to cut branches a yard or more long, wreathed 

 from end to end with flowers. This and P. floribunda are the two finest of 



1. 

 PYRUS SIKKIMENSIS. 



flowering (as distinct from fruiting) crabs, and as P. Scheideckeri is two or 

 three weeks the later, both should be grown. 



P. SIKKIMENSIS, Hooker fil. SlKKIM CRAB. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 7430 ; Malus sikkimensis, Koehne.} 



A small tree branching low and of bushy habit, distinct among all other 

 crabs in cultivation through the excessive development of stout, rigid 

 branching spurs on the trunk ; young shoots downy. Leaves 2 to 4^ ins. 

 long, i to 2 ins. wide ; narrowly oval, tapering or rounded at the base, slender- 

 pointed ; very woolly beneath, and more or less so above ; stalks downy, \ to 

 \\ ins. long. Flowers i in. across, white (rosy in bud), produced during 

 May in corymbs of four to nine blossoms ; calyx downy, with slender-pointed 

 lobes ; flower-stalks i| to i| ins. long, slender.. Fruit somewhat pear- 

 shaped, | in. wide and long, dark red with paler dots, the apex marked with 

 the scar left by the fallen calyx. 



