28. 
THE APPLE. 
Pyrus malus. 
Puate 4, Fie. 8. 
Ne's, 
» RIS PREAD of branches rather than 
7 
syeles 
height is the peculiar feature of 
the Apple-Tree—a feature which 
has become familiar to us in its 
cultivated form. But it is of the 
Apple-Tree of our woodlands— 
the ‘ Crab’ or Wild Apple—that we have 
here to speak, a Tree which, from the 
fact that it is unquestionably indigenous 
to Britain, would be an object of mterest, were it 
not that it has given origin to the producers of 
the most abundant and—for general purposes— 
the most valuable fruit that we possess. 
