CHAP. XLII. JBOSA^CEiE. PY N RUS. 909 



i 19. P. (c.) angustifo v lia Ait. The narrow-leaved Apple Tree. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 2. p. 276. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. 24. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 635. ; 



Don's Mill., 2. p. 647. 

 Synonymes. P. coronaria Wang. Amer., 61. t. 21. f. 47., upon the authority of Willdenow, and Wats. 



in bend. Brit. ; Malus sempervirens Desf. Arb., 2. p. 141. ; P. pumila Hort. 

 Engravings. Wang. Amer., 61. t. 21. f. 47. ; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 43. f. 1. ; Wats. Dend., 1. 132. ; Bot. 



Reg., t. 1207. ; and our plate in Vol. II. 



Spec. Char.,Sj-c. Leaves glossy, lanceolate-oblong, dentately serrated, tapered 

 and entire at the base. Flowers in corymbs. A native of the woods of 

 Carolina. (Dec. Prod., ii. p,635») Its flowers, which are produced late, as 

 in the preceding sort, are sweet-scented ; the corolla is of a very pale blush 

 colour. This sort differs from the preceding one, in having the leaves 

 narrower, and the fruit much smaller; also in being subevergreen, and in 

 having lead-coloured speckled branches. Notwithstanding all these points 

 of difference, however, it bears such a general resemblance to P. coronaria, 

 that we cannot doubt its being only a variety of it. It is found wild in the 

 low woods of Carolina; and it was introduced in 1750, by Christopher Grey. 

 It grows to the height of 15 ft. or 20 ft.; and, on account of its fragrance 

 and persistent leaves, it. deserves a place in every collection. The fruit is 

 green when ripe, and intensely acid, like that of P. coronaria; but it is 

 much narrower and smaller. 



It 20. P. specta'bilis Ait. The showy-Jlowering wild Apple Tree, or 

 Chinese Crab Tree. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 2. p. 175. ; Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 267. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 635. : Don's 



Mill., 2. p. 646 

 Synonymes. Malus spectabilis Desf. Arb. t 2. p. 141. ; N. Du Ham., 6. p. 141. j 3/alus sinensis Dum. 



Coitrs., ed. 2. 5. p. 429. 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 267. ; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 42. f. 2. ; and the plate of this species in Vol. II. 



Spec. Char., cfc. Leaves oval-oblong, serrated, smooth. Flowers in sessile 

 umbels, many in an umbel ; large, and very elegant ; at first of an intense 

 rose-colour, but afterwards of a pale one. Tube of calyx smooth. Petals 

 ovate, clawed. Styles woolly at the base. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 635.) A 

 native of China; cultivated in 1780, by Dr. Fothergill ; growing to the 

 height of 20 ft. or 30 ft.; and flowering in the end of April and beginning of 

 May. This is by far the most showy of all the different species of Pyrus, 

 both of this and of the other sections. The flowers are semidouble, and 

 of a pale rose-colour; but before they are expanded, the flower buds, which 

 are large, appear of a deep red. In this state the tree is extremely beau- 

 tiful ; particularly as the flowers appear early in the spring, when few 

 other trees are in blossom. The stamens and pistils are much more nu- 

 merous than in the other species ; the former sometimes exceeding 40, 

 and the latter 20. The fruit is small, irregularly round, angular, and about 

 the size of a cherry: it is of a yellow colour when ripe, but is without 

 flavour, and is only fit to eat when in a state of incipient decay; at which 

 period it takes the colour and taste of the medlar. No garden, whether 

 large or small, ought to be without this tree. 



Statistics. In the environs of London, at Spring Grove, a tree, believed to be upwards of 50 years 

 old, was, in 1834, 35 ft. high ; at Kenwood, 38 years planted, it is 34ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 1 ft. 7 in., and of the head 28 ft. ; at Fulham Palace, 12 years old, and 20 ft. high ; in Hamp- 

 shire, at Eastwood, 20 years planted, and 16 ft. high; in Berkshire, at White Knights, 30 years 

 planted, and 30 ft. high; in Cheshire, at Eaton Hall, 17 ft. high ; in Oxfordshire, in the Oxford 

 Botanic Garden, 30 years planted, and 25 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 10 in., and of the head 

 20 ft. ; in Shropshire, at Golden Grove, 40 years planted, and 25 ft. high ; in Staffordshire, atBlythe- 

 field, 25 years planted, and 28 ft. high ; in Suffolk, at Great Livermere, 35 years planted, and 28 ft, 

 high ; in Worcestershire, at Croome, 25 years planted, and 25 ft. high. In Scotland, in Perthshire, 

 in the Perth Nursery, 30 years planted, and 17 ft. high. In Ireland, at Dublin, in the Glasnevin 

 Garden, 20 years planted, and 20 ft. high; at Terenure, 15 years planted, and 14 ft. high ; in the 

 Cullenswood Nursery, 20 years planted, and 35 feet high ; in Fermanagh, 20 years planted, and 25 ft. 

 high; in Louth, at Oriel Temple, 25 years planted, and 19 ft. high. In France, at Paris, in the 

 Jardin des Plantes, 30 years planted, and 35 ft. high. 



App. i. Additional Species of Pyrus belonging to the Section Melius 



P. quinquefibra Hamilt. (Don's Mill., 2. p. 647.) has elliptic acute leaves, and is indigenous in 

 Chithong. The flowers are supposed to be white. All that is known in Europe of this species has 

 been derived from dried specimens in the Linnasan Society's herbarium. 



