PY'RUS SPECTA'BILIS. 
SHOWY CHINESE APPLE. 
Class. 
ICOSANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
POMACES, 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
(Cultivated 
China. ( 
20 feet. 
April, May. 
Tree. 
| in 1780. 
No. 1209. 
The oiigin of the systematic name Pyrus, and 
hence our word Pear, has been traced back to the 
the Celtic peren, as its origin. 
We can but remark with some regret, that the 
Pyrus spectabilis is rarely met with in the orna- 
mental grounds of our nobility. It is true that its 
beauty is chiefly dependent on its fine display of 
flowers, the existence of which is sometimes short, if 
the season be an unfavourable one. We confess to 
never having met with it in flower till we saw it in 
the Garden of Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, where 
it is growing as a fine orchard tree, between twenty 
and thirty feet in height. It sometimes produces 
fiuit, which is small, about the size of a cherry, and 
unpalatable ; but it ultimately assumes the colour 
and state of a ripened Medlar, and may then be 
eaten. It is usually propagated as Apple-trees, by 
grafting on Crab stocks, and requires but the same 
amount of attention. Mr. Rivers has, we believe, 
raised from the Pyrus spectabilis, a seedling variety 
of much beauty, superior, even to the original tree, 
in its floral character. 
Trees of large size are to be met with in the Bo- 
Order. 
di-pentagynia. 
