. sour fruit, commonly called cider apples in Britain, and j)omr-mes a cidre in France. 2. P. M. coRONARiA. Thc Garland-floweriug Apple-tree or American Sweet-scented Crab; Pyrns coronaria, of De Can-dolle, Torrey and Gray, and Loudon; Mainscoronaria^ of Michaux; Pommier sanvage, ofthe French; and Amerikanischer Holzapfel-banm, of the Germans. This variety is a na-tive of North America, from Canada to Louis-iana, and was introduced into Britain in 1724,where it is common in collections, and has alsobeen naturalized. It is found in f
. sour fruit, commonly called cider apples in Britain, and j)omr-mes a cidre in France. 2. P. M. coRONARiA. Thc Garland-floweriug Apple-tree or American Sweet-scented Crab; Pyrns coronaria, of De Can-dolle, Torrey and Gray, and Loudon; Mainscoronaria^ of Michaux; Pommier sanvage, ofthe French; and Amerikanischer Holzapfel-banm, of the Germans. This variety is a na-tive of North America, from Canada to Louis-iana, and was introduced into Britain in 1724,where it is common in collections, and has alsobeen naturalized. It is found in fertile soils,in cool, moist places, near the borders of woods,where it usually grows to a height of fifteen toeighteen feet, with a trunk six or seven inchesin diameter, and under very favourable cir-cumstances, it sometimes attains nearly doublethese dimensions. In some parts of Britain,as at White Knights, and at Pepper Harrow,near Godalming, it has become naturalized inthe woods; and plants of various ages arefound wild, which have sprung up from seeds 38. 298 PYRUS disseminated by birds. The largest trees at the latter place are about thirty feetin height, and are said to preserve all the distinctive features of the species orrace. The leaves are broadly ovate, rounded at the base, subangulatc, smoothon the upper surface, and when fully developed, are distinctly toothed. Whileyoung, they haAe a bitter, and slightly aromatic taste; whence Michaux thinksthat, with the addition of sugar, they would make an agreeable tea. The flow-ers which put forth in March, April, and May, arc white at first, and graduallychange to a purplish hue before they fall. They are very large, and occur incorymbs, with smooth peduncles; and. during the blooming season, they per-fume the whole air with the scent of violets. The fruit is flatly orbiculate, froman inch to an inch and a half in diameter, of a yellowish-green when ripe, whichoccurs in September, and gradually becomes more yellow,
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