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CRAB APPLE. 
Icosandria pentagynia. Linn. Rosaceæ. Juss. 
Malus coronaria. M. foliis lato-ovalibus, basi rotundatis, sub-angulatis, ser- 
ratis , nitid 'e glabris ; pedunculis corymlosis ; fructu parvo , odorato. 
Pyrus Coronaria. Linn. The Garland-flowering Apple Tree. 
A species of Wild Apple Tree is found in North America, whose nature 
has not yet been modified by cultivation. The Wild Apple Tree of Europe 
in along series of years, has yielded a great number of species and varieties 
of fruit, which, in France alone, amount to nearly three hundred. Except 
the District of Maine, the State of Vermont, and the upper part of New 
Hampshire, the Crab Apple is found, on both sides of the mountains, 
throughout the United States ; but it appears to be most multiplied in the 
Middle States, and especially in the back parts of Pennsylvania and of 
Virginia-. It abounds, above all, in the Glades, which is the name given 
to a tract 15 or 18 miles wide, on the summit of the Alleghanies, along the 
road from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. 
The ordinary height of the Crab Apple Tree is 15 or 18 feet, with a 
diameter of 5 or 6 inches ; but it is sometimes found 25 or 30 feet high, 
and 12 or 15 inches in diameter. The two stocks which I found by mea- 
surement to be of this size, stood in a field which had long been under 
cultivation, and this circumstance may have contributed to their extraor- 
dinary growth. They were insulated trees that in appearance exactly 
resembled the common Apple Tree. I have universally remarked, that 
the Crab Apple grows most favourably in cool and moist places, and on 
fertile soils.. 
The leaves of this tree are oval, smooth on the upper surface, and when 
fully developed, very distinctly toothed ; some of them are imperfectly 
three-lobed. While young they have a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, 
which leads me to believe that, with the addition of sugar, they would 
make an 'agreeable tea. Like, the common Apple Tree, this species blooms 
very early in the spring. Its flowers are white, mingled with rose color, 
and are collected in corymbs ; they produce a beautiful effect, and diffuse 
a delicious odor, by which, in the Glades where the tree is abundant, the 
air is perfumed to a great distance. The apples, which are suspended by 
