APPLE SERVICE. 
The Sorbus, or Service Tree, of which the 
Apple Service is a species, is said to be so 
called from the Latin, Sorbere, to Sup; be« 
cause the fruit, when ripe, may be supped up. 
This genus of plants belongs to the class of 
Icosandria, and to the order of Trigynia: of 
which the generical chara6lers are, as described 
by Miller, that the flower has a spreading^ 
concave, permanent empalement, of one leaf, 
indented in five parts ; it has five roundish con- 
cave petals, which are inserted in the empale- 
ment, and about twenty awl-shaped stamina, 
which are also inserted in the empalement, 
terminated by roundish summits ; the germen 
is situated under the flower, supporting three 
slender styles crowned by ere6l-headed stigmas, 
and afterwards becomes a soft umbilicated fruit, 
including three or four oblong cartilaginous 
seeds. 
Tournefort ranges the Sorbus in the eighth 
section of his twenty-first class, which includes 
the trees and shrubs v/ith a rose flower, the 
empalement of which becomes a fruit pregnant 
with 
