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which it is distinguished by the young branches being covered with a shining 
dark brown gloss, and by having small scarlet berries.—We have never seen it. 
¥ 32. P, So’rpus Gertn. The True Service. 
Identification. Gertn. Fruct. 2. P. 45. t. 87.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 637. 
Synonymes. Sérbus doméstica Lin. Sp. 684.; Pyrus doméstica Smzth in Eng. Bot. t. 350., Walir. 
Ann, Bot. 145., Don’s Mill. 2. p.648.; the Whitty Pear Tree ; Cormier, or Sorbier cultivé, F.; 
Speyerlingsbaum, or Sperberbaum, Ger.; Sorbo domestico, Ital. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 350.3; Gertn. Fruct., 2. t. 87. ; the plate in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. vi.; 
and our fig. 792. 
792. #. Sérbus. 
Spec. Char., §c. Buds glabrous, glutinous, acuminate. Leaflets serrated, vil- 
lose beneath, but becoming naked when old. Pome obovate, pear-shaped. 
(Dec. Prod.) A tree of the middle size. Europe, chiefly of the middle 
region ; found also in some parts of Barbary, particularly in the neigh- 
bourhood of Algiers ; and by some considered a native of Britain. Height 
30 ft. to 60 ft. Flowers white; May. Fruit brown; October. Decaying 
leaves yellowish brown. Naked young wood grey, like that of the com- 
mon mountain ash. 
Varieties. In Du Hamel and the Dictionnaire des Eaux et Foréts,. eight vari- 
eties of the true service are described ; but in British gardens only the two 
following sorts are cultivated : — 
¥ P.S. 2 maliformis Lodd. Cat., la Corme-Pomme, Fr., has apple-shaped 
fruit. Of this variety there are trees which bear abundantly in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, and in the Hackney Arboretum. 
¥ P. 8. 3 pyrifirmis Lodd. Cat., la Corme-Poire, Fr., has pear-shaped 
fruit; and of this, also, there are fruit-bearing trees in the piaces 
above referred to. 
A tree, in foliage and general appearance, closely resembling the mountain 
ash ; but attaining a larger size, and bearing much larger fruit, of a greenish 
brown colour when ripe. In France this tree attains the height of 50 or 
60 feet: it requires two centuries before it reaches its full size ; and lives to 
SO great an age, that some specimens of it are believed to be upwards of 1000 
years old. It grows with an erect trunk, which terminates in a large pyrami- 
dal head. . This tree is readily known from the mountain ash, in winter, by 
