TREES AND SHRUBS 



MAULE'S QUINCE, Cydonia 3Iaulei. 



Gardens, walls. April. 



Flowers bright red, 1 in. diam., in dense cymose clusters; Fruit a pome, 

 about size of small Apples, bright gold, suffused with red, very abundant, 

 fragrant, very acid ; an excellent conserve. 



Leaves resembling P. japonica, but smaller ; crenate-dentate, petioles long. 



A deciduous shrjob, 3-4 ft. ; Branches slender, spreading ; Titigs brown. 



Introduced from .Japan, 1874. Syn. Pyrus Maulei. 



COMMON QUINCE, Cydonia vulgaris. 



Gardens, orchards. INIay, June. 



Flowers white or pale red, in a few- flowered umhellate cyme ; pedicels 

 downy ; Calyx downy, lobes leafy, glandular-serrate, longer than tube ; Ovary 

 5-celled ; styles 5, connate at base, woolly ; Fruit a pome, varying in shape, 

 oblong, ovate or obovate, 2 ins. long, li in. diam., fragrant, acid, astringent, 

 5-celled, cells cartilaginous, many seeded ; ripe in October ; used for preserves. 



Leaves alternate, ovate, blunt at base, entire, acute, tomentose beneath ; 

 petioles short ; stipules oblong, obtuse, glandular-serrate. 



A deciduous tree, 20 ft. ; Branches spreading, contorted ; bravchlets 

 tomentose. 



Native of Asia ; naturahsed in S. Europe. Specific name from Kydon, in 

 Crete, where tree has long been plentiful. Syn. Pyrus Cydonia. 



Injurious Insects: — i?rtr/,— Fruit-tree l?ark Beetle {Scolytus rugulosus); 

 Fruit — Codlin Moth {Carpocapsa pomonclla); Leaves — Large Tortoiseshell 

 Butterfly ( Vanessa polychloi'os). 



SCARLET THORN, Crataegus coccinea. 



Parks, gardens. April, INIay. This fine oramental species does best in 



good loamy soil, and then forms a vigorous growing tree amply furnished 



with bright green foliage and large flattened corymbs of white blossoms. 



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