HOSE FAMILY. 



133 



90 



length. Petals mostly pale red. Fruit of various size (1-3 or 4 inches in diameter), 

 fleshy, umbilicate at both ends. 



Cultivated. Native of Europe. Fl. May. Fr. July -November. 



Obs. The varieties of this valuable fruit are almost innumerable, 

 and every farmer provides more or less of an orchard ; but there is far 

 too little attention paid to the selection of the best. It is really won- 

 derful to observe how many worthless trees are permitted to cumber the 

 ground, which might just as readily, and far better, be occupied by 

 those which bear the choicest fruit. 



3, P, corona'ria, L. Leaves broad-ovate, rounded or sub-cordate at 

 base, incised-serrate and somewhat angulate-lobed, smoothish ; pedun- 

 cles corymbose ; fruit depressed-globose. 



FIG. 89. The flower of the Apple (Pyrus Malus) , divided and showing the ovaries 

 cohering with the calyx-tube. 90. A section of an Apple, in which the bulk of the fruit 

 (pome) is formed of the fleshy enlarged calyx-tube, surrounding and cohering with the 

 2-seeded papery carpels. 



