298 PYRUS 



Fruit globose, the size of a small pea, red or brownish yellow, with no calyx- 

 lobes^at the top. 



Native of Japan ; introduced by Siebold about the middle of last century, 

 and a small tree of very graceful habit, distinct among crabs for its variable, 

 often deeply cut leaves, and its tiny fruits (see also P. Sargenti and P. Zumi). 

 It is allied to P. floribunda, but is not so valuable a garden tree, its blossoms 

 being shorter-lived. 



P. TORMINALIS, Ehrhart. WILD SERVICE. 



(Cratsegus Torminalis, Linnaus ; Sorbus Torminalis, Crantz.) 



A tree from 30 to 40 ft. high as a rule, but occasionally 60 to 70 ft., with 

 a trunk girthing over 5 ft., branchlets covered at first with a loose floss, but 

 soon quite smooth and shining. Leaves ~2\ to 5 ins. long, nearly or quite as 

 wide, of a broadly ovate or triangular outline, divided half-way to the midrib 

 into three or four pointed lobes on each side ; margins doubly-toothed ; 

 upper surface smooth and lustrous dark green ; lower surface paler and at 

 first downy, afterwards smooth ; stalk I to 2 ins. long. Flowers white, \ in. 

 across ; produced during June in rather lax corymbs 3 or 4 ins. across ; calyx 

 and flower-stalks very woolly. Fruit oval or roundish, |- in. long, brownish. 



Native of Europe (except the extreme north) including Central and S. 

 England. This handsome tree is nowhere apparently very abundant in a 

 wild state, and is rare also in cultivation. Yet few trees of its size are more 

 striking, its leaves being large, boldly cut, and of a healthy polished green, 

 turning crimson or yellowish in autumn. The flowers are not very pure white, 

 but attractive when seen in the mass. The fruits when " bletted " after the 

 fashion of medlars have a similar flavour, but are not to be recommended. 

 It should be raised from seeds, and thrives best in a heavy clayey soil. 

 Elwes records several trees between 60 and 70 ft. high in England, and a 

 tree is known in Germany 82 ft. and 6^ ft. in girth of trunk. In Kent and 

 Sussex the fruits are popularly known as" "chequers." 



P. TRILOBATA, De Candolle. 



(Sorbus trilobata, Boissier ; Eriolobus trilobati, Roemer!) 



A small tree, perhaps up to 20 ft. high, with very downy young twigs. 

 Leaves with three deep main lobes, the terminal one usually three-parted, 

 the side ones two-parted. The leaf thus often becomes seven-parted, but 

 the shape is not uniform, and although the three main lobes are always there, 

 the subsidiary divisions vary in number. Some of the leaves have a maple- 

 like appearance, the blade being 2 to 4 ins. wide, scarcely as long, heart- 

 shaped at the base ; the stalk f to 2 ins. long. The upper surface is smooth 

 and bright, the lower one downy, more especially on the veins and midrib ; 

 margins finely toothed. Flowers white, in small terminal corymbs, calyx- 

 lobes long, triangular, with a dense white wool on both sides. Fruit usually 

 reduced to from one to three in a corymb, f to f in. across, globular or pear- 

 shaped, crowned with the calyx-lobes. 



Native of Mount Lebanon and other parts of Syria, but rare both in a 

 wild state and in gardens. Two small trees in the Kew collection are quite 

 hardy. Some of the leaves resemble those of P. Torminalis. An interesting 

 small tree. 



P. TSCHONOSKI, Maximowicz. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8179 ; Eriolobus Tschonoski, Rehder.) 



A tree 30 to 40 ft. high, of erect, open, rather pyramidal habit ; young 

 branches covered with a greyish down. Leaves broadly ovate, or rounded ; 



