204: COLD* CLOUT'S CALENDAR. 



service-tree, and became regular ovals in shape, marked 

 at the edges by a number of small fine teeth only, as 

 befits denizens of the sheltered dells, with free 

 elbow-room for catching the full flood of the air and 

 the sunlight. At the same time, their flowers grew 

 fewer and their fruits larger, as almost always happens 

 with more southerly species of northern types. Still 

 later, the true pear and the true apple parted company 

 with one another, and with their near allies the Siberian 

 crab and the pyrus japonica. Their real differences are 

 after all very slight ; if it were not for the marked 

 flavor of the fruit probably no one would ever think of 

 reckoning them as distinct species. 



