. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. THE MEDLAR THE MEDLAR or apple, usually with five cells, each more or less completely divided into two parts so that there appear to be ten cells. The pomes of some species are no larger than a pea, while in the best strains of other species they attain the size of a small crab-apple. They vary in color from dark red to a purplish-blue or black and all have more or less bloom. The several juneberries are exceedingly variable in their fruits, suggesting high potentialities in the domestication of the best of the wild species. They differ much
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. THE MEDLAR THE MEDLAR or apple, usually with five cells, each more or less completely divided into two parts so that there appear to be ten cells. The pomes of some species are no larger than a pea, while in the best strains of other species they attain the size of a small crab-apple. They vary in color from dark red to a purplish-blue or black and all have more or less bloom. The several juneberries are exceedingly variable in their fruits, suggesting high potentialities in the domestication of the best of the wild species. They differ much in the character of the plants, some species being dwarf shrubs with many stems, while others are small trees with straight, slender trunks, the largest of which attain a height of forty feet and a diameter of eight or ten inches. All are hardy, and at least two of them give promise of making most desirable domesticated plants in regions too cold for any, or but few, other fruits. June- berries thrive under the same care as that given the apple or pear. The genus shows wide adaptation to soils and moisture condi- tions; in temperate regions there are few lo- calities where other fruits are grown in which some one or several of the juneberries would not thrive. Strams of several species have been brought under cultivation, some of which have been named and spariniily disseminated by nursery- men. So far, all of the cultivated varieties have come from the bush-like species, most of them from A. alnijolia. One of the first named sorts to be sent out was Success, a dwarf strain probably of A. canadensis, in- troduced by H. E. Van Deman, then of Kansas, about 1878; this variety seems to be no longer cultivated. Severd western nurserymen now offer strains of A. alnijolia under the names Improved Dwarf Juneborry, Dwarf Mountain Junebeiry, and Western Huckleberry. These named varieties aie selected strains from wild plants, no one as yet having set out to improve juneberries. Then! are
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