1568 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



It is one of the most beautiful and generally cultivated of its genus, both 

 for its flowers, and its fruit, 1 which makes a delicious jelly. It grows on 

 good soil to a considerable size. Elwes saw at Patshull, Staffordshire, the 

 seat of the Earl of Dartmouth, a tree, measuring 40 ft. by 7 ft., with a burry 

 trunk. 



7. Pyrus sikkimensis, J. D. Hooker, Flora Brit. India, ii. 373 (1878), and in 



Bot. Mag. t. 7430(1895). 



Branchlets tomentose. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 2 to 3 in. long, 

 ending in a long caudate-acuminate apex ; tomentose beneath ; margin with 

 fine close sharp-pointed serrations. Fruit, f in. in diameter, turbinate, not 

 depressed at the base, marked at the apex with a brown circular depressed scar, 

 no trace of the calyx remaining. 



A small tree, native of Sikkim and Bhutan between 7000 and 10,000 ft. 

 altitude. It is in cultivation at Kew, where a tree about 25 ft. high has spiny 

 branches on the trunk. 



8. Pyrus Halleana, Sargent, in Garden and Forest, i. 152 (1888). 



Branchlets slightly pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, lanceolate to ovate, 2 to 3 

 in. long, usually tapering gradually to an acuminate apex ; quite glabrous on 

 both surfaces and on the petiole, glandular on the midrib above ; margin un- 

 dulate, finely serrate. Fruit globose, \ in. in diameter, not hollowed at the 

 base, marked at the apex by a depressed circular scar, no trace of the calyx 

 remaining ; and containing very large seeds. 



This small tree was introduced in 1863 into the United States from Japan, 

 where, however, it is not known in the wild state. It bears beautiful pink 

 flowers, which are usually double. The original tree in Mr. Parkman's garden 

 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, was 18 ft. high in 1888. There is a small 

 specimen at Kew. 



II. Sorbomalus, Zabel, Laubholz-Benennung, 189 (1903). Leaves folded in the 

 bud ; on adult trees irregular in outline, some being lobed or dentate. 



* Calyx persistent on the fruit. 

 f Leaves covered beneath with dense grey tomentum. 



9. Pyrus ioensis, Bailey, in Amer. Gard. xii. '473 (1889). 



Branchlets densely grey tomentose. Leaves ovate, acute, about 3 in. long, 

 often with two or four lateral lobes, crenately serrate, covered beneath with a 

 dense grey tomentum ; petioles tomentose. Fruit sub-globose, 1^ in. in 

 diameter, depressed at the base, on a stout tomentose stalk. 



This is the common crab-apple of the Mississippi basin in the United States. 

 It was introduced at Kew in 1906. Bechtel's crab, a form with large pink 

 double flowers, is often cultivated in the United States. P. Soulardi, 2 Bailey, 

 which is wild here and there in the Mississippi valley, is supposed to be a 

 natural hybrid between P. Malus and P. ioensis. 



1 The fruit which I bought at several railway stations in Siberia in May 1912 was juicy and well-flavoured. H. J. E. 

 1 Britton and Shafer, N. Amer. Trees, 434 (1908), say that this hybrid is cultivated in the north central States for its 

 fruits, which are highly prized for cider and jellies, and used as a substitute for the quince where that fruit will not thrive. 



