Chestnut Hill, 'Philadelphia 
PYRUS. Flowering Crab (see, also, Sorbusj 
P. baccata. Siberian Flowering Crab Apple. (M v) A small spreading 
tree with compact crown ; flowers usually white ; fruit yellowish, tinged with 
red, about the size of a cherry. Extremely hardy. (See plate on page 53.) 
P. coronaria. Sweet-scented Crab. ( Sm) A low, bushy tree with stiff, 
crooked, thorny branches. In May it bears very ornamental, sweet-scented, 
rosy red or blush flowers. 
P. floribunda. Flowering Crab. (Ds) An ornamental sort; valuable 
for its May flowers, rosy red in bud but opening white, and beautiful fruit in 
the autumn. 
P. Ioensis, var. Bechtel. Bechtel’s Double-flowering Crab. One of the 
most ornamental and of recent introduction. It is a good grower, with good 
foliage and beautiful large double flowers of delicate blush or shell-pink color, 
and highly perfumed. It should be in every collection. 
P. Parkmani; syn., Halliana. Parkman’s Crab. (D s) A compact 
grower, with dark green foliage, which is retained very late. In April its half¬ 
double rose-colored blossoms are equally attractive in bud and flower. 
P. spectabilis. Chinese Double-flowering Crab. (Sm) One of the 
showiest flowering Apples, bearing in May sweet-scented double white 
flowers, coral-red in the bud. 
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. s pe ctab il is var . rosea flore pleno. Double Rose-flowered Crab. 
Vo ///; oimilar to the above, but flowers are a deep rose-color. 
. Toringo. Dwarf Crab. (Ds) A tree with small white or blush 
also good SPr ' ne and Sma " yell ° W frUit ' n falL The color of the fal1 foliage is 
QUERCUS. Oak 
rh ' S m ° rC ™ a i esti , cand picturesque than a grand old Oak, but one must not 
the r growth isnTfi lt ' 0n , whlc . h , P' ants ° aks can "°t enjoy their beauty, for although 
trees Forces hT ° W ' ' P ' a ? te , d ,n g0od soil they vviU outgrow many other 
trees, lew trees have so many good characteristics ; they are hardy, lasting always 
symmetrical, adapted to a variety of soils, and transplant easily 8 ' always 
Q ’ a broad Atre ? with s P readin g branches, forming a 
■Iiul* rrl p 1Cat e gray ’ l eaves narrow-obtuse, bright green above 
Se g o t C he C nofl C f n r ath - V'l f ° Hage takes 0n a d «P purple cflor in fall. 
i„ C v? S °] th , e northern states and a beautiful lawn tree, 
requiring space for its best development. 
^ ^rcewk^ ^ 7n ) ^ roun d “topped, open-headed 
brown in the fnil j Wn SCa - y kark and dark green foliage, which turns bronzy 
f.e°d tree rema "’ S ° n the tree late in the winter ' A good Iawn or 
^ r A broad, pyramidal, open-headed tree 
ornamental' variety" 8 rancheS ' The oblon e leaves are dark green. A very 
Q ' C g 0 r C eei, n de;n!vm, r t le f t i° ak - l\ r) A grand round-topped tree with bright 
sirable jSSj.™ t0 brilIiant scarlet in the “tunrn. 
