APPLE AND PEAR TREES 173 
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has been known in English gardens little more than twenty years. 
Although most of these species produce edible fruit, they are mentioned 
here solely on account of their ornamental characters. 
Pyrus Arta. White Beam-tree. A bush or tree 
Noe Waeytiag from 4 to 4 feet in height, with variable leaves, 
jagged at the edges or deeply lobed, smooth above, white and woolly 
beneath. Flowers, white, }-inch across in flat corymbs; May and June. 
Fruits miniature apples, -inch across, rich scarlet. Native. 
P. Aucupartia (fowler’s). Rowan or Mountain Ash. A tree, from 
10 to 40 feet high, with long leaves broken up into lance-shaped, toothed 
leaflets, of which there are from six to eight pairs and an odd one. The 
flowers are creamy white, 3-inch across, in dense-flowered compound cymes, 
5 or 6 inches across; May and June. Fruit small, globose, scarlet, in con- 
spicuous bunches. The Rowan in full fruit is highly ornamental. Native, 
P. BaccaTa (berried). Cherry Crab. A tree, 15 to 20 feet high, 
with smooth egg-shaped, toothed leaves, and white flowers; April and 
May. Fruit cherry-like, yellow tinged with red. Native of Northern 
Asia from Himalaya to Japan. 
P. COMMUNIS (common). Wild Pear. A tree, from 30 to 70 feet 
high, generally of pyramidal form, with thorny branches, and egg-shaped 
toothed leaves, in bunches on the old wood, singly on the new shoots. 
The flowers are white, from 1 to 13 inch across, in simple cymes; April 
and May. Native. 
P. CORONARIA (garland). Sweet-scented Crab ; American Crab. A 
small tree, about 20 feet high, with egg-shaped, irregularly toothed or lobed, 
smooth leaves, and large, rosy-tinted, fragrant flowers in small corymbs ; 
May. Fruit small, fragrant, greenish. Native of Eastern United States, 
P. Cypon1a (supposed native of Kydon in Crete). Quince. A tree, 
20 feet high, with crooked branches, and egg-shaped, entire leaves, white 
and woolly beneath. Flowers white or pale red, large and few, in an 
umbel; May or June. Fruit varying apple or pear-shaped, of a fine 
golden yellow when ripe. 
P. FLORIBUNDA (free-flowering). A highly ornamental shrub, with 
slender shoots, and small lance-shaped, toothed leaves. Flowers abundant, 
rich, rosy red; May. Fruit very small, long-stalked. Japan. 
P. JAPONICA (J apanese). Japanese Quince. A shrub, 5 or 6 fect high, 
with smooth, oval leaves, and deep scarlet flowers, produced in pairs or 
threes, in winter before the leaves, and almost throughout the year. Fruit 
fragrant, green ; not edible, One of the finest of hardy shrubs whether 
grown on the wall, or as a bush. 
P. Matus (Apple-tree). Crab Apple. Shrub or small tree, 20 fect high, 
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