PYRUS 



PYRUS 



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2029. Pyrus Kaido of American 

 horticulturists (X 3^). 



2030. Fruit of Pyrus Kaido in win.ei. 



2031. Pyrus coronaria (X Wl. 



ian belong Co this mongrel class. Some of the so-called 

 Crabs are only small-fruited forms of Pyrus Maluts, be- 

 ing distinguished by soft woolly leaves and short pubes- 

 cent leaf-stalks and fruit-stems. Some writers consider 

 P. prunifolia to be a good species. By some, the hy- 

 brids of P. Mains and P. baccata are referred to P. 

 eerasifera, Tausch. 



CC. Calyx persistent on the ripe fruit. 



10. M§,lus, Linn. (P. Astracdnica and P. ac4rba, DC. 

 Melius commiinis, DC. MAlus Afdlus, Britt. ). Apple. 

 Figs. 107-112, 2025. A round-headed tree, with all the 

 growing parts and under surface of the leaves gray- 

 woolly : Ivs. ovate or orbicular-ovate, mostly pointed, 

 soft in texture, dull, the margins irregularly serrate, on 

 stout petioles: fls. large and showy, white or light rose, 

 in close clusters on short woolly pedicels, appearing 

 with the leaves: fr. very various, with a cavity about 

 the stem, a homogeneous flesh and persistent calyx.— 

 Cultivated from remote antiquity, and believed to be 

 native to southeastern Europe and western temperate 

 Asia to the Himalayas. "Indigenous in the western 

 hills [of the Himalaya], as well as cultivated up to 

 11,500 feet in Tibet," Hooker. It varies into many 

 forms, and several species have been erected upon the 

 different types. The Paradise Apple (P. Mains, var. 

 paradisiaca, Linn.) is a dwarf form known in this 

 country chiefly as a stock upon which to graft Apples 

 that it is desired to dwarf. The Bloomless Apple (P. 

 dioi.ca, Willd.) is an apetalous form, with ten to flfteen 

 styles, 2 rows of sepals, a superimposed core and no 

 stamens; see Amer. Gard. 10, p. 244, 279; 11, p. 6 (figs.), 

 624. There are ornamental forms, with variegated Ivs. 

 (Gt. 45:1425, var. aurea) , others with partially double 

 fls., others with drooping habit. 



11. spectdbilis, Ait. (P. Mdlus spectdbilis, Hort. 

 MAlus spectdbilis, Borkh. 31. Sinensis, Dum.). Chi- 

 nese Flowering Apple. Fig. 2026. Small tree, with 

 darker colored fls. than those of the Apple (the opening 

 fl.-buds almost coral-red), and blooming earlier: Ivs. 

 narrower, oval to oval-oblong, slender-stalked, nearly 

 glabrous on both surfaces or becoming so, usually more 

 closely serrate than those of the Apple : pedicels and 

 calyx-tube nearly or quite glabrous: fr. roundish or 

 round-oval, without a cavity at the base, reddish yellow, 

 sour. China, and perhaps Japan. B.M. 267. L.B.C. 

 18:1729. Gn. 21, p. 46. Gng. :}:273. G.F. 1:272. -A 

 very handsome early-blooming tree, of which the dou- 

 ble-fld. forms are most prized. P. Mains itself has 

 been disseminated under the name of P. spectabilis. 

 Hardy in the northern states. Var. Rlversil, Hort., 

 has very large half-double bright rose-red flowers. 



Figs. 2027, 202& Spreading bush or small tree, all 

 parts more pubescent than in P. spectabilis : Ivs. usu- 

 ally broader, broad aval to round-oval, sharply serrate, 

 relatively short-stalljed: fls. large, rose-colored, in few- 

 fid, clusters: fr. small, somewhat depressed at the base 

 about the stem, about % in. in diam. Japan. Carri^re, 

 "Pom. Microcarpes," p. 41, as P. microcarpa Hingo.— 

 Very doubtful whether a distinct species. 



13. Kiido, Sieb. (P. spectdbilis, yrv. Kclido, Nichols. 

 Mdlus Kdido, Sieb.). Figs. 2029, 2030. By some 

 thought to be a hybrid of P. spectabilis and P. Hingo, 

 and by others considered as a good species. It is not 

 certain that the P. Kaido originally meant by Siebold is 

 the P. Kaido of American horticulturists. As known 

 here, it is very like P. spectabilis, bearing most pro- 

 fusely of red fls., with red pedicels and calyx, and hold- 

 ing its little fruits all winter: fr. nearly globular, }4-% 

 in. in diam., mostly holding the calyx but sometimes 

 dropping it in midsummer, —the dropping of the calyx, 

 as well as the habit of growth, suggesting hybridity 

 with P. floribunda. It comes from Japan. It is a most 

 useful plant, being one of the most showy of all the 

 oriental flowering apples. 



12. Rin?o, Wenzig (P. spectdbilis, var. Bingo, Koch. 

 '. Toringo, v&r. Hingo, Nichols. Mdlus Bingo, Sieb.). 



)• 2032. Wild Crab of the East, Pyrus coronaria (X %). No. 15. 



