Archive image from page 460 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 PYKUS PYRUS 1471 It is little prized for its fruit, although the pears are useful for preserving and some of the varieties are showy and the fruits are good keepers; it is used for stocks upon which to work the
Archive image from page 460 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 PYKUS PYRUS 1471 It is little prized for its fruit, although the pears are useful for preserving and some of the varieties are showy and the fruits are good keepers; it is used for stocks upon which to work the common. Pear, and it has given good results in hybridizing. It is an excellent ornamental tree, being a clean grower of great vigor. Kleffer, Le Conte and others are hybrids of P. communis and P. Sinensis {Figs. 1081-3). This type has a stronger growth than the common Pears, the leaves are usually broader and darker green, with closely and mostly ob- tusely serrate edges, the fruit is more or less pyrit'orm and of better flavor than that of P. Sinensis, and the calyx is either persistent or deciduous. Seedlings of Kieffer often produce the sharply toothed leaves of P. Sinensis. 4. salicifdlia, Pall. Small tree, becoming 20 ft. tall: Ivs. willow-like (whence the name), linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse or short-acuminate, entire or very nearly so, hoary beneath: lis. white, in corymbs, short- pedicelled: fr. round-pyriform, short-stemmed, yellow or greenish. Siberia. II. 14:145.—A showy spring- 5owering small tree, hardy in the northern states, and worthy of being better known. 5. The following species of the seetion Pyrophorum (Pears) may be expected to appear in the trade, and some of them are now growing in private collections in this country. P. auricu- Idris, Knoop (P. Pollveria, Linn. P. Bollwylleriana, DC). Di-fers from the Pear in hadng softer more irregular Ivs., which are deeply serrate and sometimes almost jagged, pubes- cent beneath at maturity: fr. sma
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