Account of a neic variety of Crab Jipplc, 287 



1839 is the most vigorous, the most beautiful, and the most 

 fruitful, I shall speak of it more particularly. 



This tree has preserved, in its buds, leaves, and stems, the 

 general aspect of its parent; but it is far more vigorous, of a 

 more beautiful carriage (port;) the branches are more ramify- 

 ing and stronger, and have a vertical or oblique direction, 

 very ascending. 



The tree has attained a total height of five metres, seventy 

 centimetres, [about seventeen feet.] 



The flowers, which open at the same time of those of the 

 Jlialus baccata and J]I. prunifolia, are numerous, large, of a 

 pure white, and very odoriferous. 



The fruit is so abundant that, notwithstanding hundreds fell 

 off by the wind, previous to the commencement of Septem- 

 ber, the tree was then covered; and besides the intense frost 

 and the effects of the snow and the sun, they were yet 

 very sound, and of a beautiful red color. The fruit is gen- 

 erally round, though some are a little oval; others are flattish, 

 and a few are of a conical shape. Their diameter the largest 

 way is from twenty-five to thirty millimetres. The pe- 

 duncle is slender, filiform, ordinarily rose or red, and united 

 in a deep cavity; its length ranging from four to six centime- 

 tres. The eye is small, and generally slightly sunk; the se- 

 pals soon decay. The skin is yellow, laved with clear red, 

 and very smooth; the flesh is yellow, firm, and the juice acid. 

 The kernels or seeds are of a clear brown, and part of them 

 always abortive. 



This tree is much superior to the Jl/ulus hybrida, called al- 

 so the Siberian apple, for its more elegant carriage, its figure, 

 its more abundant foliage, the number, the fulness, and the 

 odor of the flowers, the abundance of its fruit, their color a 

 deeper red, more brilliant, and, above all, the advantage which 

 it possesses of remaining attached to the trees, for a long time 

 after the fall of the leaves, producing an effect in winter very 

 remarkable. Those which grew in 1839 remained hanging to 

 the tree until the end of February, and at this time there are 

 some, notwithstanding their decomposition by the intensity of 

 the frost, the snow and the sun, which are still firmly attach- 

 ed to the branches. 



Note. — In July, 1841, a considerable quantity of the fruit 

 of 1840 was then attached to the branches, dried up, and con- 

 trasting singularly with the new fruit, which had already attain- 

 ed half its size. 



