. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . bes-cent petioles, thick and oftenrugose and woolly beneath:fls. blush, in close woolly clus-ters like those of the Apple:fr. often 2 in. or even morein diam., flattish lengthwise, yellow and often with a tinted cheek,the basin shallow, flesh fairly in the Mississippi v
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . bes-cent petioles, thick and oftenrugose and woolly beneath:fls. blush, in close woolly clus-ters like those of the Apple:fr. often 2 in. or even morein diam., flattish lengthwise, yellow and often with a tinted cheek,the basin shallow, flesh fairly in the Mississippi valley fromMinnesota to Texas, but always local.— Named for James G. Soulard, Ga-lena, 111., who introduced the first to cultivation. In someforms the leaves become nearlysmooth late in the season andthere is little tendency towardsan irregular notching or lobingof the margins. The tree ishardy and the frtiit keeps welland is useful for culinary pur-poses. A few named varietiesare grown in the upper Missis-sippi valley,where trees of greathardiness are demanded. Foraccounts of the pomological off-shoots of our native Apples, seeBailey, Evolution of our Na-tive Fruits, and Craig & Hume,Native Crab Apples and theirCultivated Varieties, Iowa 2036. Matureleaf of PyrusAcad. Sci. 1899. Soulardi (Xh)-. PYRUS PYXIDANTHERA 1475 19. The above sketch (Nos. 6 to 18) aeeoiints for all the apple-like species known to be in the American traJe, although theremay be other Latin names in some of the catalogues. Thereare few remaining species of tlie Malus section.—P. crat(e!/i-folia, Targ., coiisidered by some writers to be of this section,by others to belong to iSorbus, and by still others to be a hybridbetween Pyrus and Sorbus, is a bush or small tree, local in N.
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