. 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. Thee the fleshy torus a. Most of the edible part of the Apple or Pear, therefore, is considered to be torus, whereas the core is ovary. This ovary is of five carpels or cells, as shown in the cross-section. Fig. 2nL'n. It was formerly heUl that the edible part is largciv calvx-lubc', but vari- ous morphological


. 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. Thee the fleshy torus a. Most of the edible part of the Apple or Pear, therefore, is considered to be torus, whereas the core is ovary. This ovary is of five carpels or cells, as shown in the cross-section. Fig. 2nL'n. It was formerly heUl that the edible part is largciv calvx-lubc', but vari- ous morphological considerations iiave to regard it as stem rather tlian reasons is the fact that Apples soiu- i i . r > . , ' which is commonly I'lii II. i, There are the si Um. . .. ..i opinion as to the generic limits of this group of plants. What is regarded by Bentham & Hooker as one genus is re- garded by others as 10 or 12 genera (see, for exaniple, E. Kochne, "Die Gattung iler ; Wissensch. Beil. zum Program des Palk-Realgynmasiums,Ber- lin, 1890). In the present work, some of these species (the quinces) are set off as Cydonia, the medlar as , and the motmtain ashes, cliokeberries and their kin as Sorbtis. This rcstri.'ts Pyrus to the pear-like and apple-like 0. Section of a pome (apple). Showing the interior or ovary part and the or torus part. region. Of this particular region. Bossier (Flora Orientalis) reduces the species to eight, P. communis, P. cordafa, P. amygdaliformis, P. eloiagrifolia, P. saUcifolia, P. , P. Boveana, P. glabra. Some of these have fruits of comestible value, and it is not impossible that they may be worthy of amelioration. The best horticultural account of the species of Pears, with particular reference to their pomological values, will be found in vol. 1 of Dccaisne's "Le Jardin Fruitier du Museum," where superb plates are given. 2. Apples (J/«7j(s).âFruit with a sun


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