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PYRUS* angustifélia. 
The Evergreen Crab. 
ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Pomacrnm. 
PYRUS. — Supra, vol. 6. fol. 514. 
P. angustifolia ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis basi acutis leviter crenato-den- 
tatis nitidis, pedunculis corymbosis. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1020. Pursh 
jl. am. sept. 1.340. Smith in Rees, no. 17. Watson dendrol. brit. 
ial 2 
P. coronaria, Wangenh. am. 61. t. 21. f. 47. 
P. pumila of some nurseries. 
This handsome hardy shrub is not often found in cul- 
tivation, and yet it deserves to be known much more than 
many of sreater note. In sheltered situations, or in mild 
winters, it is nearly evergreen, especially if its shoots are 
not over vigorous. In the low woods of Carolina, which 
are its birth-place, it forms a small tree, resembling 
Pyrus coronaria. 
Perfectly hardy, and propagated by grafting upon the 
common Crabstock. 
According to the Hortus Kewensis, it was introduced 
in 1750, by Mr. Christopher Gray. Our drawing was 
made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, in 
May 1828. | 
The fruit is said to be a small green turbinate pome, 
not bigger than a haw. 
A small tree or large bush, growing from 8 to 10 feet 
* See fol. 1196, 
