ROSACEiE 



Leaves alternate, and tufted on dwarf shoots, ovate-oblong, shortly petiolate, 

 serrated, acuminate or cuspidate, glabrous above, generally downy beneath when 

 young, 12 ins. long ; stipules subulate, downy, deciduous. Autumn tint brown. 



A deciduous tree, 20-30 ft. ; Branches spreading when young, more 

 drooping later, giving a rounded head ; trunk unsymmetrical ; Barh rugged : 

 Twigs round, shining, red-brown; Buds small, somewhat triangular; Wood 

 hard, heavy, fine-grained, slightly brown, taking high pohsh. 



Native of Britain. Syn. Malus comiminis. Name Apple from A.S. appcl, apl. 



Chief insects injurious to cultivated Apple : — Bark — American Blight 

 {Schizoneura lanigera), Fruit-tree Bark Beetle {Scolytus riigidosus), Mussel 

 Scale {3Iijtila,spis poniorum) ; Blossom and Fruit — Codlin Moth {Carpocapsa 

 pomonella), Apple Weevil {Anthonomus pomorum), Apple Sawfly {Hoplocampa 

 testudinea), Apple Chermes (Psijlla ma/i) ; Leaves— A^ple Aphis {Aphis mali). 

 Garden Chafer {Phyl/opc/iha horticola). Lackey JNIoth {Bombyx neustria). 

 Winter Moth {Cheimatobia brumata). Small Ermine INIoth {Hyponomeuta 

 padcUa); JFood— Goat Moth {Cossus ligniperda, IVypanus cossus). Wood 

 Leopard Moth {Zcuzera cvsculi, Z. pijrinu). 



Fungoid Pests: — Apple-leaf Spot {Scptoria pyricola), Apple-tree White 

 Mould {Oidiu?n farinosum). Apple-tree Canker {Nectria ditissima). Apricot 

 Brown Rot {Monilia fructigena). 



CHERRY CRAB, Pyms pruni/hlia. 



Gardens. April, IMay. ^V'^hen laden with its phikish flower buds in spring 

 this makes an ornamental tree, but is chiefly grown for the sake of its hand- 

 some fruits, which are yellowish flushed with red, and of an agreeable flavour. 



Flowers white, resembling Common Pear, in cyinQse clusters; peduncles 

 pubescent ; Calyx-lobes persistent ; Styles woolly at base ; Fruit a pome, 

 globose, yellowish and red, decaying like Medlar. 



Leaves alternate, ovate, acuminate, serrate, glabrous, petioles long. 



A deciduous tree, 20-30 ft. 



Native of Siberia ; introduced 1758. Syn. Malus pi-unifolia. 



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