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WILD SERVICE-TREE. 



in Scotland or Ireland. It occurs occasionally in 

 Cornwall as a hedge-bush, and in some other of 

 the southern countries is said to attain the height 

 of fifty feet ; but it is nowhere common. 



The True Service-tree" {Pyrus sorhus) is a 

 doubtful native of Britain ; but this is rarely met 

 with even in a cultivated state, and requires no 

 further mention. 



The name " Service-tree " is often applied in- 

 discriminately to all the above species of Pyrus, 

 but belongs more particularly to the last. 



