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May. From P. baccata and P. prunifolia its fruits and larger flowers amply 

 distinguish it. 



P. KAIDO (Malus Kaido, Wenzig), Perhaps a hybrid between spectabilis 

 and Ringo. It has larger, more deeply coloured flowers than the former. 



P. SPURIA, De Candolle. 



(P. hybrida, Moench ; Sorbus spuria, Persoon.) 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, 6 to 12 ft. (probably more) high ; young 

 wood downy. Leaves very variable, but usually more or less pinnate or 

 pinnatifid ; the smaller leaves, however, are sometimes quite entire, and there 

 is every intermediate shape ; they are 2 to 3^ ins. long, the three to seven 

 leaflets or divisions overlapping each other, toothed, slightly downy beneath 

 in the earlier part of the season. Flowers white, in. across, produced at 

 the end of short leafy twigs in small corymbs. Fruit black-purple. 



Although this interesting and pretty little tree has been in gardens for 

 more than one hundred years, its origin is not definitely known, but it 

 is most probably a hybrid between the mountain ash and P. melanocarpa. 

 P. arbutifolia is often given as one parent, but from the black-purple colour 

 of the fruits P. melanocarpa is the more likely. P. spuria flowers very freely 

 in May. " Pyrus hybrida, Moench? is perhaps tjhe oldest name for this 

 hybrid, but its use gives rise to such confusion with Sorbus hybrida as used 

 for P. pinnatifida, that it seems best to drop it in both cases. 



P. TIANSHANICA, Franchet. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 7755 ; Sortus thianshanica, Ruprecht^) 



A shrub or small tree, 6 to 14 ft. high, of rounded bushy habit ; young shoots 

 usually smooth. Leaves pinnate, 5 or 6 ins. long, composed of four and a half 

 to seven and a half pairs of leaflets, which are .lanceolate, i J to 2 ins. long, 

 to in. wide, pointed, finely and evenly toothed, and quite smooth on both 

 surfaces ; stalkless, except the terminal one. Flowers white, f in. across, 

 produced in late May in terminal, rather loose corymbs, 3 to 5 ins. across ; 

 calyx and flower-stalks quite smooth except at the margins of the triangular 

 calyx teeth. Fruit roundish, \ in. diameter, bright red. 



Native of Central Asia (Turkestan, Afghanistan, etc.) ; discovered in 1867, 

 and introduced about 1895. One of the dwarfest of this section, this is also 

 one of the most pleasing. For small gardens or small lawns it is especially 

 adapted, being of slow growth and neat, bushy form. Its flowers are probably 

 the largest in the mountain ash group. 



P. TORINGO, Siebold. 



(Malus Toringo, Siebold?) 



A small tree, rarely seen more than 10 to 15 ft. high, sometimes a low 

 shrub, but said by Sargent to become 30 ft. high in a wild state ; branches 

 arching or pendulous ; young shoots downy the first year. Leaves dull green, 

 very variable in shape, and either narrowly oval, ovate, deeply three-lobed, or 

 of some intermediate shape ; they are I to i\ ins. long, sharply, irregularly, 

 and often coarsely toothed ; downy on both sides, but especially beneath ; 

 tapering at the base to a downy stalk to f in. long. Flowers pale pink to 

 deep rose, in. in diameter, produced during April in clusters of three to six, 

 each flower on a downy, slender, almost thread-like stalk f to i in. long. 

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