APPLE FAMILY. Pomaceae. 



A very handsome bush, from five to 

 Golden, Missouri 



or Buffalo Currant twelve feet high, with pretty foliage and 

 Rlbes bureum smooth, pinkish-gray, woody stems. The 

 Yellow bright green leaves, with three or five 



lobeS ' are thin in texture ' With a few hairs 

 on the leaf-stalks, fresh and glossy-looking, 



and setting off the bright clusters of clear yellow flowers, 

 of which the calyx, half an inch across, with a long greenish- 

 yellow tube, is the conspicuous part. The small petals are 

 sometimes yellow, but often bright red and the fruit is 

 smooth, yellow, red, or black, and edible. This is deli- 

 ciously fragrant and spicy, very handsome and attractive, 

 growing beside brooks and in moist canyons, where some- 

 times, in masses, it has at a distance the effect of Forsythia, 

 but purer in color. It grows as far east as Missouri and 

 is often cultivated. 



APPLE FAMILY. Pomaceae. 



A rather large family, widely distributed, including 

 many attractive trees and shrubs, such as Mountain Ash 

 and Hawthorn, as well as Pears and Apples, with pretty 

 blossoms and conspicuous, often edible fruits; leaves alter- 

 nate; stipules small; flowers regular, perfect, single or in 

 clusters; calyx usually five- toothed or five-lobed; peta! 

 mostly five, usually with claws; stamens numerous, o 

 rarely few, separate, with small anthers; ovary inferior an 

 compound; styles one to five. The calyx-tube graduall 

 thickens and becomes a "pome," or apple-like fruit, 

 which the core is the ovary. 



There are several kinds of Amelanchier, of the nort 

 temperate zone; shrubs or trees, with thornless branche 

 and white flowers, usually in clusters; calyx-tube bet 

 shaped, with five narrow sepals; petals five; stamen 

 numerous, on the throat of the calyx ; styles two to five ii 

 number, united and hairy at base; ovary wholly or partlj 

 inferior; fruit small and berry-like. The name is from th 

 French for the Medlar. These shrubs are called Shad 

 bush in the East, because they bloom just when the shac 

 are beginning to run in the rivers. 



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