'j: to tliis nioiiKi-el class. Some of the so-called 

 Crabs art' only small-fraited forms of Pyrits Malus, be- 

 ins; liistinguislied by soft woolly leaves and short pubes- 

 cent leaf-stalks ancl fruit-stems. Some writers consider 

 P. pi-iiuifnlia to be a good species. By some, the hy- 

 brids of P. Malux and P. baccata are referred to P. 

 cei-asifem, Tausch. 



cc. Calyx persistent on the ripe fruit. 

 in. MiluB, Linn. (P. Astracdnica and P. acirba, DC. 

 M.ihix fommidiis. DC. JUdliis MAlus, Britt.). Apple. 

 Figs. 107-112.202.1. A round-headed tree, with all the 

 growing parts and under surface of the leaves gray- 

 woolly : tvs. ovate or orbicular-ovate, mostly pointed, 

 soft in texture, dull, the margins irregularly serrate, ou 

 stout petioles : fls. large and showy, white or light rose, 

 in close clusters on short woolly pedicels, appearing 

 with the leaves : fr. very various, with a cavity about 

 the stem, a homogeneous flesh and persistent calyx.— 

 Cultivated from n-innl.. ;niii.|uity. and believed to bu 

 native to .southeasti-rii Ijii..|.i jn-l western temperate 

 Asia to the Himalav:.-, ■ I imIil-^ uwns in the western 

 bills [of the Himalavat.a^ «(il ;,s cultivated up to 

 11, .500 feet in Tibet." ll.n.ker. It varies into many 

 forms, and several siiecies have beeu erected upon the 

 dilTerciit tvpes. The Paradise Apple (P. Mulus. var. 

 p,ir<iilixiaea, Linn.) is a dwarf form known in this 

 country chiefly as a stock upon which to graft Apples 

 that it is desi'red to dwarf. The Bloomlcss Apple (P. 

 dioica, Willd.) is an apetalous form, with ten to fifteen 

 styles, 2 rows of sepals, a superimposed core and no 

 stamens; see Amer. Gard. 10, p. 244, 279; lLp.G(flgs.), 

 G2t. There are ornamental forms, with variegated Ivs. 

 ((it. 4": 1 12.'. var. aiiren), others with partially double 

 fls.. utliers with <lrooping habit. 



11. 8pect4bili3, Ait. {P. .V.n.i 

 ^flUus spei-l,ibilix, Borkh. .)/. v 

 NESE Flowekino Apple. Fi - _ 



darker colored fls. than thos 



fl.-buds almost coral-red), ani 

 narrower, oval to oval-oblon;;. ..U iiii. r . lalUed, nearly 

 glabrous on both surfaces or becoming so, usually more 

 closely serrate than those of the Apple : pedicels and 

 calyx-tube nearly or quite glabrous: fr. roundish or 

 round-oval, without a cavity at the base, reddish yellow, 

 sour. China, and perhaps Japan. B.M. 267. L.B.C. 

 18:1729. (tu. 21, p. 46. Gng. 3:273. G.P. 1:272.-A 

 very hanilsomo earlv-blooraing tree, of which the dou- 

 ble-fld. forms are most prized. P. .V«?h.s- itself has 

 been disseminated under tie- naim .f 7', ./...liihilis. 

 Hardy in the northern stat. .. \ Hivi rsii, rinrt.. 



has very large half-double bn J' -its. 



12. Ein^o, Wenzig (P. spm , . ,, /, ,„,,^. Korh. 

 P. Torinm., var. liingn, NichoW, .l/.,,„.s Ju,,,,;, Sieb.). 



Figs. 2027, 2028. Spreading bush or small 

 parts more pubescent than in P. spectabilis : Ivs. usu- 

 ally broader, broad-oval to round-oval, sharply serrate, 

 relatively short stalked fls large rose colored in few 

 fld clusters fr small, somewhat depressed at the base 

 about the stem ibout ^i m m dism Tipnn Carrifere, 

 Pom Microcari t 41 . P >» i npn Bnujo — 



\ ery doubtful h 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 i i 



13 Kiido, Si ) 

 Mdlus KAul: - I 



thought to bt I I 

 and by others 

 certain that tli / 

 the P Kaulo t 

 here it is m i \ / 



fusely ( t 1 d II \ nli i 



ilo Nichols 



hold 



mg 1 



un II ^ ,, l.bular, H-54 



ij ih li I I lit sometimes 



mill uiiiiM 1 II li I I iii„ of the calyx, 



Inbit ot griwru -.u i stmg h-sbridity 



iiila It comes from Japan It is a most 

 1 mg one of the most showy of all the 

 iiig apples 



diihiU.'i. nort. 



iipening 



2032. Wild Crab of the East. Pyrus coronari 



