192 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
as soon as ripe. The flowers are produced on short spurs at the end and 
along the sides of well-ripened shoots of from one to three years old. In 
pruning, these must be preserved uncut when the weak and unripened 
wood is cut away in winter. 
APPLE AND PEAR TREES 
Natural Order Rosacea. Genus Pyrus 
Pyrus (the old Roman name for the Pear-tree). A genus of trees or 
shrubs comprising about forty species, with simple or pinnate leaves, 
and white or pink, honeyed flowers, in te 
_ flower-parts agree in number with those of Prunus, and are similar in 
arpels. The fruit as a whole, 
alyx is above it. The carpels 
ae, Like Prunus, the genus Pyrus has been cultivated for 
the sake of its fine fruits from very early times. The 
Romans are believed to have brought cultivated Apples with them when 
they took possession of these islands, But that is a matter with which 
We are not much concerned, for there j 
or Pear. It is true that lo : the 
Quince, made its first ng anterior to the year 1573 P. Cydonia, 
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favourite P. japon s : 
introduced in icin. which flowers nearly all the year round, we 
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