. The care of trees, in lawn, street and park [microform] : with a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Jardins; Arbres; Landscape gardening. 294 Trees for Shade and Ornament of six to eight feet in a year. Most easily propagated from seeds or cutting, and a most rapid grower in almost any soil. It is only semi- hardy north of New York. APPLES AND APPLE-LIKE FORMS (QUINCES, MEDLARS, CRAB APPLES, ETC.) Pirus (including Cydonia). This is a family of a very large number of species and endless varieties of small trees and shrubs, of wide dis- tribution, furnishing, be- sides our Ix'
. The care of trees, in lawn, street and park [microform] : with a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Jardins; Arbres; Landscape gardening. 294 Trees for Shade and Ornament of six to eight feet in a year. Most easily propagated from seeds or cutting, and a most rapid grower in almost any soil. It is only semi- hardy north of New York. APPLES AND APPLE-LIKE FORMS (QUINCES, MEDLARS, CRAB APPLES, ETC.) Pirus (including Cydonia). This is a family of a very large number of species and endless varieties of small trees and shrubs, of wide dis- tribution, furnishing, be- sides our Ix'st fruit trees (apples, pears, quinces), a considerable number of ornamentals, both native and exotics; pleasing, some by form, some by foliage, some by flower and fruit. They are mostly hardy, and usually adaptive to soils, and easily transplaiUfd, but they are, like all freely cultivated plants, liable to a considerable extent to insect troubles and fungus diseases. Besides the common apple {P. Mains Linn. (249) ), which, with its rounded head, especially when in flower, is a most pleasing object in a rustic landscape, two small crab apples, both with roundish heads, the one native, the other from China, deser\e special notice. P. coromtia Linn. (250), from the Middle and Western States, with pale red, sweet-scented flowers, appearing with the leaves, followed by ? yellow ^reen Iruit; also a variety with double flowers; and — P. spectabilis Ait. (251), from China, the most ornamental in form,. loi. — Pirns spectabilis Ait. i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard), 1851-1923. New York : H. Holt
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