604 ICOSANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Pykus, 
Jgcq. Austr. 443— FI. Dan. 798— Hunt. Evel. 182. i. 176. Ed. 2 d. — E. Bot. 
298—Matth. 263— Clus. i. 10. 2 —Dod. 803. 2— Lob. Obs. 614. 2 —Ger. 
Em. 1471. 2 —Ger. 1287. 2 —Trag. 1010— Park. 1420. 2 —J. B. i. «. 63 
— Cam. Epit. 162— Lonic. i. 50. 2. 
(A middle sized tree with hard wood, and smooth bark. Leaves on long 
stalks, serrated, smooth. Corymb terminal, branched, woolly, many 
flowered. FI. Brit. E.) Blossoms white, numerous. Fruit reddish 
brown, austere, small. 
Wild Service Tree, or Sorb. (Irish: Keora Culira. Welsh: Cerddinen 
wyllt. P. torminalis. Willd. Sm. Cratcegus torminalis. Linn. Huds. 
c< Oh ! who that has an eye to see, 
A heart to feel,—a tongue to bless. 
Can ever undelighted be 
By Nature’s magic loveliness! ” ; 
No where may the admirers of such scenery be more completely gratified, than on 
contemplating at such a season, the boundless and richly diversified prospect from the 
summit of Malvern Hill, (an elevation of one thousand feet, above the vale), whence all 
the nearer landscape, within distinct observation, comprehending on one side the Pear- 
trees of Worcestershire, on the other, the Apple-trees of Herefordshire, will be found to 
display 
“ One boundless blush, one white-empurpled shower 
Of mingled blossoms. 
Such a prospect must excite sentiments not merely of admiration, but of gratitude : 
“ Soft roll your incense herbs and fruits and flowers, 
In mingled clouds, to Him whose sun exalts. 
Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.” 
This gorgeous show is succeeded from the end of July to October, by the gradual ripening 
of the different kinds, for the dessert, the kitchen use, or the cyder making; most of which 
improve in perfection after being gathered, and several of the winter kinds, in particular, 
keep good for many months, even till the arrival of apples on the following summer. 
Mr. Salisbury asserts that no less than 50,000/. was paid for apples, from the northern pro¬ 
vinces of France, to supply the London market, in the season of 1816 only.—An ingenious 
Frenchman has prepared an agreeable kind of bread with one third of boiled apples to tw'o thirds 
of flour. Apples carefully gathered, laid awhile to mellow, then crushed in a mill, pressed till 
ail their juice is extracted, and afterwards fermented, become cyder. The same process with 
pears, perry. The richest and strongest sorts are distributed for sale over the whole country ; 
the inferior serve as common drink in the districts where they are produced, to the exclusion 
of malt liquor. 
--“ Autumn paints 
Ausonian hills with grapes, whilst English plains 
Blush with pomaceous harvests, breathing sweets. 
O let me now, when the kind early d«v 
Unlocks the unbosom’d odours, walk among 
The well-rang’d files of trees, whose full-aged stores 
, Diffuse ambrosial steams. 
Now, now r ’s the time, ere hasty suns forbid 
To work, disburthen thou the sapless wood 
Of its rich progeny ; the turgid fruit 
Abounds with mellow liquor.” Philips. 
Thus are the charms of the one season succeeded by the more solid gratifications of 
another ; delicious fruits have replaced the faded flowers. The mellow apple whose golden 
brilliancy is heightened by rich streaks of carmine, weighs down the branch which bears it; 
the luscious pears, and plums, whose juice is sweeter than honey, display their tempting 
beauties, and invite us to pluck them. How inexcusable at the sight of such blessings, 
never to sanctify the pleasure these rich gifts afford, by reflecting on the bountiful kindness 
of Providence ! E.) 
