
APPLE FAMILY. Pomaceae. 
G ; . A very handsome bush, from five to 
olden, Missouri ; ¢ Z 
or Buffalo Currant twelve feet high, with pretty foliage and 
Ribes dureum smooth, pinkish-gray, woody stems. The 
Yellow bright green leaves, with three or five 
ee eee lobes, are thin in texture, with a few hairs 
res on the leaf-stalks, fresh and glossy-looking, 
and setting off the bright clusters of clear yellow flowers, 
of which the calyx, half an inch across, with a long greenish- 
yellow tube, is the conspicuous part. The small petals are 
sometimes yellow, but often bright red and the fruit is 
smooth, yellow, red, or black, and edible. This is deli- 
ciously fragrant and spicy, very handsome and attractive, 
growing beside brooks and in moist canyons, where some- 
times, in masses, it has at a distance the effect of Forsythia, 
but purer in color. It grows as far east as Missouri and 
is often cultivated. 
APPLE FAMILY. Pomaceae. 
A rather large family, widely distributed, including 
many attractive trees and shrubs, such as Mountain Ash 
and Hawthorn, as well as Pears and Apples, with pretty 
blossoms and conspicuous, often edible fruits; leaves alter- 
nate; stipules small; flowers regular, perfect, single or in 
clusters; calyx usually five-toothed or five-lobed; petals 
mostly five, usually with claws; stamens numerous, or 
rarely few, separate, with small anthers; ovary inferior and 
compound; styles one to five. The calyx-tube gradually 
thickens and becomes a ‘‘pome,”’ or apple-like fruit, in 
which the core is the ovary. 
There are several kinds of Amelanchier, of the north 
temperate zone; shrubs or trees, with thornless branches 
and white flowers, usually in clusters; calyx-tube bell. 
shaped, with five narrow sepals; petals five; stamens 
numerous, on the throat of the calyx; styles two to five in 
number, united and hairy at base; ovary wholly or partly 
inferior; fruit small and berry-like. The name is from the 
French for the Medlar.. These shrubs are called Shad- 
bush in the East, because they bloom just when the shad 
are beginning to run in the rivers. 
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