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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



which it is distinguished by the young branches being covered with a shining 

 dark brown gloss, and by having small scarlet berries. We have never seen it. 



t 32. P. 5'o'rbus Ga;rtn. The True Service. 



Identification. Gaertn. Fruct.. 2. p. 45. t. 87. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 637. 



Synonymes. SArbus domestica Lin. Sp. 6H4. ; Pyrus domestica Smith in Eng. Bot. t. 350., WalW. 



Ann. Bot. \i^., Don's Mill. 1. p. 648. ; the Whitty Pear Tree ; Cormier, or Sorbier cultive, Fr. ; 



Speyerlingsbaum, or Sperberbaum, Ger. ; Sorbo domestico, Ital. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 350. ; Gsertn. Fruct., 2. t. 87. ; the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi.; 



and our^^. 792. 



792. P. Sdrbus. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Buds glabrous, glutinous, acuminate. Leaflets serrated, vil- 

 lose beneath, but becoming naked when old. Pome obovate, pear-shaped. 

 {Dec. Prod.) A tree of the middle size. Europe, chiefly of the middle 

 region ; found also in some parts of Barbary, particularly in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Algiers ; and by some considered a native of Britain. Height j 

 30 ft. to 60 ft. Flowers white ; May. Fruit brown ; October. Decaying \ 

 leaves yellowish brown. Naked young wood grey, like that of the com- 1 

 mon mountain ash. j 



Varieties. In Dii Hamel and the Dictionnaire des Eaiuv et Forets, eight vari-, 



eties of the true service are described ; but in British gardens only the twoj 



following sorts are cultivated : i 



If P. S. 2 7nalif6rmis Lodd. Cat., la Corme-Pomme, Fr., has apple-sliapedj 



fruit. Of this variety there are trees which bear abundantly in the: 



Horticultural Society's Garden, and in the Hackney Arboretum. 



ft P. S. 3 2}i/rif6rmis Lodd. Cat., la Corme-Poirc, Fr., has pear-shapedj 



fruit; and of this, also, there are fruit-bearing trees in the piacesj 



above referred to. 



A tree, in foliage and general appearance, closely resembling the mountaiij 

 ash ; but attaining a larger size, and bearing much larger fruit, of a greenislj 

 brown colour when ripe. In France this tree attains the height ot 50 oij 

 60 feet : it requires two centuries before it reaches its full size ; and lives t(| 

 so great an age, that some specimens of it are believed to be upwards of lOOlj 

 years old. It grows with an erect trunk, which terminates in a large pyramij 

 dal head. This tree is readily known from the mountain ash, in winter, b 



