GREEN 303 



started out in the pail with us never to return. 

 If you have never eaten it cooked as a sauce and 

 flavored with molasses, you have yet to taste a 

 very delectable sirup. 



AMERICAN CRAB APPLE 



Malus coronaria Pyrus coronaria 



Apple Family 



Fruit. — The apple is yellowish green and flat- 

 tened lengthwise. The small, smooth calyx lobes 

 are in the deep, broad depression at the summit. 

 The fruit stein is slender. One or two dark 

 brown seeds are in each cell. The fruit is 

 fragrant but sour. It hangs long on the trees, 

 and does not usually decay until the following 

 spring. 



Leaves. — The leaves are ovate or triangular- 

 ovate, they grow on short, slender, hard petioles. 

 The margins are serrate. Sometimes the leaf is 

 three-lobed. It is yellow in autumn. 



Floivers. — The flowers are much like those of 

 the cultivated apple, but very fragrant and of a 

 beautiful pink color. 



This tree is often planted near homes, because 



