ROSE FAMILY. 133 
length. Petals mostly pale red. Fruit of various size (1-3 or 4 inches in deca, 
fleshy, umbilicate ra both ends. 
Cultivated. Native of Europe. Fl.May. Fr. July -November. 
Obs. The ae fh this valuable reat are almost innumerable,— _ 
and every farm more or less of an ore ; but there is far — 
too little satention paid ‘to the selection of “the best. It is really won- 
derful to observe — worthless are permitted to camber the 
ground, which m sight 3 as readily, and far better, be oc 
those which bear the i fruit. 
eg Porons L. Leaves broad-ovate, rounded or sub-cordate at — 
base, incised-serrate and somewhat angulatelobed, smoothish ; pedun- 
cles corymbose ; fruit depressed-globos 
Fic. 89. The flower of the Apple (Pyrus Malus), divided and s' the ovaries © 
cohering with the calyx-tube. i ection fa pp, fn. wh in which the of the fruit 
V oord soe ys formed of the fleshy enlarged calyx ae coteting with the: 
ed papery carpels, 
