TREES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves imparipinnate, petiolate, leaflets 13-17, oblong, acuminate, serrated 

 towards point, downy when young, becoming glabrous, paler beneath. Autumn 

 tints yellow to purple-brown. 



A deciduous tree, 30-60 ft ; Branches with an upward tendency ; Bark 

 rugged ; Buds green and smooth, viscous, scales olive-green with brown 

 border ; Tiv/gs stout, round, glabrous, olive-green to brown or grey ; Wood 

 reddish, close-grained, takes high polish ; said to be hardest and heaviest of 

 European woods ; used for wright-work. 



Not an indigenous species ; thought by some to be a product of cultivation ; 

 Synonymous with P. domestica and Sorbus domestica. 



RED CHOKE-BERRY, Piims arbutifolia. 



Gardens. May, June. 



Floxvers white, or tinged with purple, in a few-flowered co?~y>/ibose cyme, 

 woolly ; Calyx tomentose ; Fritit a pome, pyriforin or globular, small, dark 

 red or purple, persistent through winter. 



Leaves alternate, ovate or obovate, 1-3 ins. long, acute, finely serrated, 

 petiolate, downy beneath. Autumn tints deep red and purple. 



A deciduous shrub, 2-10 ft., twiggy. 



Introduced from N. America, 1700 : found throughout Canada and New- 

 foundland. Also known as Arbutus-leaved Aronia. Syns. Aronia arbutifolia, 

 Soi -b us a I -b iitifolia . 



MEDLAR, Pyrus germanica. 



Hedges, thickets, gardens. May, .June. 



Flowers white, H in. diam., solitary, sessile on short leafy branches, 



peduncle l in. ; Ccdyx 5-lobed, divisions foliaceous, woolly, persistent ; Petals 



5 ; Stamens numerous ; Ovary spuriously syncarpous and inferior ; styles usually 



.'5, distinct, glabrous; Fruit a pome, J,-l in. diam.; nearly globular or pyriform, 



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