2.94 Trees for Shade and Ornament 
of six to eight feet in a year. Most easily propagated from seeds or 
cutting, and a most rapid grower in almost any soil. It is only semi- 
hardy north of New York. 
APPLES AND APPLE-LIKE FORMS (QUINCES, MEDLARS, CRAB 
APPLES, ETC.) 
Pirus (including Cydonia). This is a family of a very large number 
of species and endless varieties of small trees and shrubs, of wide dis- 
tribution, furnishing, be- 
sides our best fruit trees 
(apples, pears, quinces), 
a considerable number of 
ornamentals, both native 
and exotics, pleasing, 
some by form, some by 
foliage, some by flower 
and fruit. They are 
mostly hardy, and usually 
adaptive to soils, and 
easily transplanted, but 
they are, like all freely 
cultivated plants, liable 
to a considerable extent 
to insect troubles and 
fungus diseases. 
Besides the common 
apple (P. Malus Linn. 
(249) ), which, with its 
rounded head, especially 
when in flower, is a most 
Fig 1o1.— Pirus spectabilis Ait. pleasing object in a rustic 
landscape, two small crab 
apples, both with roundish heads, the one native, the other from China, 
deserve special notice. 
P. coronaria Linn. (250), from the Middle and Western States, with 
pale red, sweet-scented flowers, appearing with the leaves, followed by 
a yellow-green fruit; also a variety with double flowers; and — 
P. spectablis Ait. (251), from China, the most ornamental in form, 
