ROSE FAMILY. IGl 



21. AMELANCHIER, JUNEBERRY, SERVICE BERRY. (Pop- 

 uliir name of the European species in Savoy.) flowering in spring, 

 and producing the berry-like purplish fruit (edible, sweet, sometimes 

 veiy pleasant-flavored) in summer. 



A. Canadensis, Torr. & Gray. Shad Bush of New England, is a tree 

 10'^-30° high, glabrous or very nearly so; the leaves ovate and pointed, 

 light green above, very sharply serrate, Birch-like ; flowers hirge, in open 

 and loose, more or less drooping racemes, before the leaves ; the calyx 

 lobes lanceolate ; fruit a i)urple, berry-like pome in June and July, much 

 relished by birds. The flowers appear in profusion in advance of the 

 leaves. 



Var. oblongif6lia, Torr. &. Gray (or A. oblongifolia, Roemer). Is a 

 low plant ('2^'-5^ high), with oblong, mostly blunt leaves, which are 

 floccose or woolly below, and nearly erect, woolly, panicle-like racemes, 

 appearing with the leaves ; growing in the N. States and known in culti- 

 vation as the Dwarf Ji:nkheuuv. 



22. PYRUS, PEAR, APPLE, etc. (Classical name of the Pear tree.) 

 Botanically the genus is made to include a great variety of plants, 

 agreeing in the cartilaginous, parchment-like, or thin-walled cells that 

 contain the seeds. Wood hard and tough. Flowers spring. 



§ 1. Pkai!. Leaves simpJp ; flowers ill a xiiiijile rori/mh or rhister ; fruit 

 ijcncniUii trith its base tapering doicn to the xtal/,-. 



P. communis, Linn. Common Pkar. Cult, from En. ; a smooth tree, 

 with branches inclined to be thorny ; ovate leaves with small, obtuse teeth, 

 and puri' white flowers, the anthers purple. 



P. Sinensis, Lindl. Japan or Sand Pear. Cult, from China and 

 Japan, is a stronger grower than the last, with larger dark leaves which 

 are very sharply toothed, and tough, gritty fruits which are often 

 (leiiressed about the stem, and Apple-like. Kikffer, Le Conte, and 

 others, are hybrids with the last. 



§ 2. Aei'LE. Leares simple ; flntrirs sIkiiiv/, iii a simple cluster or sim- 

 }il(' umhel ; frnit sunken {nmhilictde) at holii ends, e-specialli/ at the 

 h,(se. 



* Exotic ; leaves siniphj (Oid ereiih/ serrate, ovate or ohloncj. 



P. Malus, Linn. Common .\i>i'le. Cult, from Eu. ; tree with buds, 

 lower face of the leaves (when young) and calyx woolly; flowers white 

 and tinged with pink, on short, woolly peduncles ; fruit variou.s, but always 

 holding the calyx lobes upon its apex. 



P. spect&bilis. Ait. Chinese Fi.()wei!1N(; Ai'i-i.i;. Cull, from China 

 for its showy rose-colored, .semi-double or double flowers ; is an uin-ight 

 tree with gray branches 20*^ to 25^ high, and haril leaves which .s(Min 

 become nearly smooth, and are evenly and sharply toothed ; fruit small, 

 with iMTsisteut calyx. 



P. baccaa, Linn. Crai; Aiti.i;. From Eu. Small tree with hard, 

 wiry, smnciih shoots, hnig and smooth i)etioles and pedicels, narrower 

 smooth leaves, and a small, hard, translucent fruit from which the calyx 

 falls before maturity. 'rRANscENDENT. Hvsi.oe, and various other im- 

 proved Crabs are probably hybrids witii 1*. Malus. 



P. floribunda, Lindl. .Fai'ankse Fi.owerino Crah. A bush or small 

 tree, perhaps an offshoot from the last; smooth in all its parts, with long- 

 ai'uminate, mostly shari)ly toothed leaves; handsome, Hesh-colored or 

 rosy dowers and red dower buds, and a profusion of long-stemmed fruits 

 the size of a pea, from which the calyx falls. Semi-double forms are 

 known in gardens as P. IIai.t.i.Xnv and 1'. 1'vi;km.vm. 

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