ROSACEi^ 



A deciduous pyramidal tree, 20-40 ft. ; or a low bush ; Branches slender, 

 having an upward tendency, young shoots cottony ; Bark smooth, reddish- 

 brown ; Tidgs shining, red-olive-brown to grey ; Buds ovoid, scales green, 

 margins brown, pubescent ; Wood fine-grained, hard, white, inclining to 

 yellow ; used for small cabinet and turnery work. 



Indigenous throughout Britain ; several more or less cut-leaved forms 

 are found in various parts of the British Isles, and are considered by some 

 botanists to be species or sub-species. 



WILD SERVICE, Piims Torminalis. 



AVoods, hedges ; will grow in dry situations ; prefers strong clay soil. 

 April, May. 



Flowers white, more numerous and smaller than P. Aria, J in. diam., in 

 a corymbose cyme, at ends of short leafy branches ; young inflorescence clothed 

 with loose down ; Calyx pubescent, tube hemispherical, teeth triangular ; 

 Anthers white ; Styles usually 2, united to above middle ; Fruit a pome, 

 pyriform or sub-globose, greenish-brown, \ in. diam., dotted with lenticels, 

 juiceless, usually 2-celled, ripe in November, flesh becomes brown and ahnost 

 friable after bletting by frost. 



Leaves oblong-ovate or cordate, G-10 lobed, lobes triangular, acuminate, 

 lower ones spreading, serrated, glabrous on both surfaces, 2-4 ins. long, 

 3 ins. broad, young leaves downy, underside bluish or grey, petioles slender. 

 Autumn tint yellowish-brown. 



A deciduous tree, 40-50 ft. ; growth slow ; Branches spreading, forming 

 large head ; Tzcigs sub-angular, reddish-brown, polished ; Barh smooth, grey ; 

 Buds globoid, obtuse ; scales broad, scalloped, bifid ; ]Fuod flne-grained, red- 

 tinted, susceptible of high polish ; used for small cabinet and turnery work. 



A native of Southern and Central England. Some specimens said to 

 be 1000 years old. Skeat says name Service is corruption of serves = 

 M.E. plural of serf or serve, the name of the fruit; A.S. syrf=^innl of 

 service-tree — syrf-trcovc, a service-tree — L. sorbus, the tree ; sorl)um, its fruit. 



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