BRANCH OF CRAB APPLE. 



THE CRAB APPLE. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



HE Crab Apple is worthy of study and of comparison 

 with the apple of our orchards, for it would be hard to 

 find a more vivid, though familiar illustration ot the 

 difference between the tree when carefully tended, and 

 the parent stock where all the restraining influences of cultivation are 

 absent. Here the blossom is more scanty, the fruit poorer, the leaves 

 smaller and narrower, the growth gnarled and arrested at a thousand 

 points. Old Crab Apples often do not exceed the dimensions of a 

 bush, although here and there specimens are found some thirty ieet 

 in height. 



