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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



clusters of 2 to 3. There are a dozen or more varieties in cultivation dif- 

 fering in color or doubling of the flowers and in the spreading or upright 

 character of the shrub. The plant is a fine one for hedges or the shrub- 

 bery ; height about 5 feet. The usual name in catalogues is Cydonia 

 japonioa. 



Fig. 285. — Dwarf Flowering 

 Quince. 



Fig. 286. — Narrow-leaved Crab 

 Apple. 



Common or Ked Chokeberry (282) — Pyrus arbutifblia — is an up- 

 right or spreading shrub (2-12 feet) with alternate simple serrate leaves 

 (lJ-3 inches long) ; the white or pinkish-tinted flowers are | inch wide 

 in broad clusters, 1 to 2 inches wide, March to May. These clusters of 

 flowers, as well as the under sides of the leaves, are very grayish-hairy. 

 The nearly globular pomes are red, about J inch across, ripe in August 

 and remain on till late fall or early winter. There is a closely related 

 species with smoother leaves and black fruit which soon falls, Black 

 Chokeberry — Pyrus nigra, — also one with purple fruit, Porple Choke- 

 berry — Pyrus atropurptirea. [Seeds.] 



KEY TO THE SHEUBBY AND MORE ORNAMENTAL 

 SPECIES OF PYRUS 



Species with simple leaves, including Malus, Cydonia, Aronia, and Mes- 

 pilus. For the pinnate-leaved Mountain Ashes — Sorbus, see p. 186. 



