27. 
THE WILD SERVICE TREE. 
Pyrus torminalis. 
Pratz 4, Fre. 7. 
aA Gh EAUTY of leaf is one of the dis- 
WHAM; tinguishing characteristics of this 
Tree. Though somewhat rare in 
our woodlands, it attains a height 
sometimes of fifty feet, and bears 
fruit which is eatable, and not un- 
‘ pleasant to the taste, and which forms 
both in some parts of this country and 
in France a marketable commodity. Its 
leaves are supported on somewhat long footstalks, 
and may be described to be irregularly four-sided 
—in such a way indeed that each half, as divided 
from the other by the mid-vein, forms a sort of 
