. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1473. ian belong to this mongrel class. Some of the so-called Crabs are only small-fruited forms of Pyrus Malus, be- ing distinguished by soft woolly leaves and short pubes- cent leaf-stalks and fruit-stems. Some writers consider P. pnmifolia to be a good species. By s
. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1473. ian belong to this mongrel class. Some of the so-called Crabs are only small-fruited forms of Pyrus Malus, be- ing distinguished by soft woolly leaves and short pubes- cent leaf-stalks and fruit-stems. Some writers consider P. pnmifolia to be a good species. By some, the hy- brids of P. Malus and P. baccata are referred to P. eerasifera, Tausch. cc. Calyx persistent on the ripe fruit. 10. MUus, Linn. (P. Astraednica and P. acSrba, DC. M&liis eommiinis,DC. UMm MAlus, RnXt.). Apple. Figs. 107-112, 2025. A round-headed tree, with all the growing parts and under surface of the leaves gray- woolly : Ivs. ovate or orbicular-ovate, mostly pointed, soft in texture, dull, the margins irregularly serrate, on stout petioles: tts. large and showy, white or light rose, in close clusters on short woolly pedicels, appearing with the leaves: fr. very various, with a cavity about the stem, a homogeneous flesh and persistent calyx.â Cultivated from remote antiquity, and believed to be native to southeastern Europe and western temperate Asia to the Himalayas. "Indigenous in the western hills [of the Himalaya], as well as cultivated up to 11,500 feet in Tibet," Hooker. It varies into many forms, and several species have been erected upon the different types. The Paradise Apple {P. Malus, var. paradisiaea, Linn.) is a dwarf form known in this country chiefly as a stock upo!i which to graft Apples that it is desired to dwarf. The Bloomless Apple {P. dioica, Willd.) is an apetalous form, with ten to fifteen styles, 2 rows of sepals, a superimposed core and no stamens; see Amer. Gard. 10, p. 244, 279; 11,p. 6 (figs.). 624. There are ornamental
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