418 CRAT^GO-MESPILUS 



C.-M. DARDARI, Jouin. BRONVAUX MEDLAR. 



A deciduous tree probably 15 to 20 ft. high when fully grown, of pendulous 

 habit; branchlets downy and more or less spiny. Leaves oblong, oval 

 or ovate, \\ to 4 ins. long, f to if ins. wide ; quite entire or more or less 

 very finely toothed, downy on both sides ; stalk \ in. long. Flowers white, 

 \\ ins. across, borne in I corymbs as many as twelve together, each flower 

 on a downy stalk \ to I in. long ; calyx with five narrow, pointed lobes 

 \ to \ in. long, very downy. Fruit medlar-like, but smaller and in clusters. 



A graft hybrid between Cratsegus monogyna and Mespilus germanica, 

 but more nearly approaching the medlar (see above). On a tree at Ke\v 

 which has flowered for several years past are three distinct types of growth. 

 The bulk of the tree is C.-m. Dardari, as described above ; but there are 

 branches also of C.-m. Asnieresii, as described above also, and some of pure 

 medlar, with its much larger leaves and solitary flowers and fruits. A tree at 

 Aldenham has produced a shoot and flowers of hawthorn. 



CRAT^GO-MESPILUS ASNIEEKSII. 



C.-M. GRANDIFLORA. 



(Mespilus Smithii, De Candolk ; M. grandiflora, Smilh Pyrus lobata, Nicholson.") 



A deciduous tree up to 30 ft. high, of rounded habit, the lower branches 

 pendulous ; branchlets dow r ny. Leaves oval or obovate, 2 to 3^ ins. long, 

 half to two-thirds as wide ; often with several angular lobes towards the 

 end, these being most developed on the barren young shoots ; margins 

 finely toothed; both surfaces downy; stalk to ^ in. long, hairy. Flowers 

 usually in pairs or threes, terminating short, leafy twigs ; each flower I in. 

 across, pure white, produced on a short, woolly stalk. Fruit f in. diameter, 

 globular, yellowish brown, flesh mealy, tasting like that of a hawthorn, 

 containing two hard stones. 



A presumed natural hybrid between Crataegus monogyna and Mespilus 

 germanica, found wild in France in the departments of Saone-et-Loire and 

 Rhone on the east, and of Gironde on the west. It appears to be sterile, 

 but flowers with the greatest freedom towards the end of May, and makes 

 a picture of extreme beauty and elegance. It is a luxuriantly leafy tree 

 of vigorous growth, an admirable ornament on a lawn. 



