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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order, 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



Pyrus lanata 



Himalaya 



White 



P. vestita 



Northern India 



White 



SORBUS. 



Pyrus americana 



*P. Aucuparia 



(Mountain Ash or 

 Rowan tree) 



North America 



White 



Native 



White; 

 Spring 



growing tree, 30 feet to 40 

 feet high, with large serrated 

 leaves, covered beneath with 

 a dense silvery tomentum. 

 The flowers are succeeded 

 by corymbs of intense scarlet 

 fruit. P. pinnatifida is also 

 of note for its silvery leaves. 

 Thoroughly hardy in this 

 cotmtry, and a handsome 

 tree, met with commonly 

 under the names of P. Thom- 

 son! and Sorbus magnifica. 

 It has large oval silvery 

 leaves, and is worth growing 

 for this reason alone. The 

 white flowers and scarlet 

 fruit are an additional charm. 

 The above are all best pro- 

 pagated from seeds, which 

 are freely produced, and 

 come true to name, with the 

 exceptions of P. alpina and 

 P. decaisneana, which, be- 

 ing hybrids, cannot be de- 

 pended on. These two, and 

 the varieties of P. Aria, are 

 best worked on stocks of P. 

 Aria, on which they succeed 

 very well as a rule, care being 

 taken to choose clean, vigor- 

 ous stocks with straight stems. 



This is the American Mountain 

 Ash, and is not a great suc- 

 cess in this country. It is of 

 smaller growth than our 

 Mountain Ash, and has pin- 

 nate leaves and clusters of 

 red fruit, which, like those of 

 most of the Pyruses, are 

 much liked by birds. There 

 are several varieties. 



This adds a brilliant note of 

 colour to the garden land- 

 scape in Autumn, and is the 

 glory of many a Scotch and 

 Welsh ravine. In the north 

 the berries are very rich. 

 There are many varieties; 

 the best are asplenifolia, a 

 very handsome tree, with 

 finer leaves and more deeply 

 serrated leaflets than those 

 of the type ; dulcis, a hand- 

 some, vigorous variety, with 

 bold foliage and larger fruits 

 than those of any of the other 

 Mountain Ashes. Fastigiata 

 has somewhat the habit of the 

 Lombardy Poplar ; fructu 



