APPLE-TREE.-MALUS. 



In Botany, a Species of the Pyrus, belonging 

 to the Genus of Icosandria Pentagynia. 



THAT the apple-tree Is a native of the 

 Eastern part of the world, we have the au- 

 thority of the earliest writers, both in the 

 Sacred History, as well as by the information 

 given by the naturalists of ancient Greece 

 and Rome. The Prophet Joel, where he 

 declareth the destruction of the fruits of 

 the earth by a long drought, mentions the 

 fruits which were held in estimation, and 

 among them he names the apple-tree. 



" The Greeks call them medica" says 

 Pliny, " after the country from whence they 

 were first brought in old times." Others were 

 called epirotica, from Epirus, their native 

 country ; and that these were the same 

 species of fruit that we call apples at this 

 time, there can be no doubt ; as they are 



