. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 434 The Apples 4- SOULARD CRAB APPLE —Mains Soulardi (BaUey) Britton Pyrus Soulardi Bailey A small, stout, upright tree, similar to the other American crab apples in form and flowers, but in fruit it rather resembles the common apple and is considered by some authors to be a natural hybrid of it and one of the native species. It occurs but sparingly from Minnesota southward to Texas. The bark is scaly and brownish; twigs
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 434 The Apples 4- SOULARD CRAB APPLE —Mains Soulardi (BaUey) Britton Pyrus Soulardi Bailey A small, stout, upright tree, similar to the other American crab apples in form and flowers, but in fruit it rather resembles the common apple and is considered by some authors to be a natural hybrid of it and one of the native species. It occurs but sparingly from Minnesota southward to Texas. The bark is scaly and brownish; twigs stout, densely white-woolly at first, becoming smooth, red-brown and finally dark gray-brown; winter buds small, red-brown, the scales hairy- margined. Leaves rather thick and wrinkled, ovate-elliptic or obovate, 3 to 8 cm. long, mostly blunt at the apex, rounded or somewhat heart- shaped at the base, irregularly scal- lop-toothed or occasionally lobed, woolly when young, when old bright green and smooth or nearly so above, woolly beneath; leaf-stalk wooUy, 2 FIG. Crab. ^° ^\^ ^°^- ^^^^g' ^he floweiS, ap- pearing in May, are 5 cm. across, rose pink, in rather dense cymes, on slender hairy pedicels; the bell-shaped calyx is white-woolly, its lobes long, sharp-pointed, hairy; stamens large, orange-colored. The fruit is flat-globose, about 5 cm. in diameter, 3 cm. high, suspended on smooth, slender pedicels 2 to 4 cm. long, greenish yellow, fragrant, the flesh firm and less acidulous than that of the other American crab apples, its basal hollow broad. It is cultivated in the north central States for its fruits, which are highly praised for cider and jellies, being used as a substitute for the Quince, where that fruit will ilot thrive, and is also planted for ornament. The Siberian Crab apple, Malus baccata (Linnaeus) Borckhausen, much culti- vated for its fruit, has become spontaneous in northern New England; its fruit is but little hollowed at the base, crimson t
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