THE APPLE. 229 



in its fruit, which is rather larger, and of a fine amber or golden 

 yellow. Both this and the red are beautiful ornaments to the 

 fruit garden in summer and autumn, and are equally esteemed 

 for preserves and jellies. September. 



Quite a number of seedlings have been raised from the Sibe- 

 rian Crab in this country, mostly of larger size — some by Mr. 

 Manning, of Salem, and several by Mr. Thompson, of Catskill, 

 scarcely deserving of special notice here. 



Double Flowering Chinese Crab. 



Pyrus Spectabilis. Arh. Brit. 

 Malus Spectabilis. N. Duh. 

 Double flowering Apple. 



Tliis very beautiful crab tree from China, which produces a 

 small green fruit, of no value, is highly admired for its showy 

 blossoms. These are large, tipped with deep red in the bud, but 

 when open, are of a pale rose colour, semi-double, large, and 

 produced in fine clusters. It is an exceedingly ornamental, 

 small tree, growing from ten to twenty feet in height. 



Double White Siberian Crab. 



Baccata frucia flore pleno alba. 



Fruit three fourths of an inch high, and one and a quarter 

 broad, roundish, irregular, swollen on one side. Stalk one third 

 of an inch long, obliquely inserted at the surface, eye large, even 

 with the surface, closed. Colour red carmine on the sunny side, 

 green on the shaded side, covered with a white bloom. Flowers 

 large double white, very ornamental. (Leroy in Hort.) 



Currant Crab. 



Pomme Groseille. 



The fruits of this kind of apple are of the size of currants, and 

 are borne like them in clusters ; they are round, a little compress- 

 ed towards the ends. Stem about half an inch long. Colour red, 

 slightly striped with deep red ; it is ornamental in its flowers as 

 well as its fruits. (Leroy in Hort.) 



Purple Siberian Crab. 

 Baccata frucia pv/rpurea or rosea. 



Fruit about one inch high, and one and a half broad, oblate. 

 Stem two thirds of an inch long, slender, inserted in a large 

 cavity. Colour beautiful reddish purple on the sunny side, cover- 

 ed with a bloom, the shaded side less brilliant, and the whole 

 surface speckled with some grey dots. Flesh, like all the crabs, 

 coarse and harsh. (Leroy in Hort.) 



