76 TREES AND SHRUBS 



when laden with its hanging corymbs of rich scarlet 

 berries is a delightful picture, and it reaches its full 

 beauty in August. Not so well known is the variety 

 fructu-luteo, with yellow fruits. A near relative of the 

 Rowan tree is P- americana, its New World re- 

 presentative, but it is not so beautiful. The fruit 

 is almost identical, but the tree is of a stiff and less 

 graceful aspect. The new P. ihianschanica, which 

 also belongs to the Rowan tree group, has bright- 

 red, globose berries. Perhaps of all the genus 

 Pyrus, none on the whole are so beautiful in autumn 

 as the Crabs. P. baccata, the Siberian Crab, with its 

 bright-red, cherry-like fruits, and P. Ringo from 

 Japan, with bright-yellow ones, are the best of the 

 true species. The hybrid " John Downie " Crab is 

 also very beautiful in autumn. 



The flowering Quinces are not particularly at- 

 tractive in regard to the colour of their fruits, but 

 some of them — notably those of the dwarf Pyrus 

 Maulei — are very sweetly scented. 



Some very handsome fruits are borne by the 

 various White Beam trees {Pyrus Aria and its allies). 

 Perhaps the best of them is P- lanata (or Sorbus 

 majesttca), which has flat clusters of bright-red 

 berries. But many of the varieties of P. Aria itself 

 are very attractive. One of the latest additions to 

 this group is P. alnifolia, a neat-habited small tree 

 from Japan and China. It has oblong coral-red 

 fruits. 



Rosa. — Beauty at fruiting time is an almost 

 proverbial attribute of the Roses. None is more 



