. 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. Fig. 377. — Narrow-leaved Crab Apple. The wood is hard, close-grained, hght red- dish brown; its speciiic gravity about It is sometimes used in the manufacture of tools, handles, and portions of machinery. The tree is also called Southern crab apple. The fruit is used for jellies and cider. This is one of the most charming of North American trees on account of its abimdance of showy, fragrant flowers. 2. AMERICAN CR
. 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. Fig. 377. — Narrow-leaved Crab Apple. The wood is hard, close-grained, hght red- dish brown; its speciiic gravity about It is sometimes used in the manufacture of tools, handles, and portions of machinery. The tree is also called Southern crab apple. The fruit is used for jellies and cider. This is one of the most charming of North American trees on account of its abimdance of showy, fragrant flowers. 2. AMERICAN CRAB APPLE Malus coronaria (Linnaeus) Miller Pyrus coronaria Linnaeus Also called Sweet crab, Fragrant crab and Scented crab, this small tree is quite abun- dant, often forming dense thickets, from On- tario to Michigan, South Carolina, Missouri, Alabama and northern Louisiana. It often attains a height of 9 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm. The trunk is short, its branches slender, spreading, often crooked, forming a broad, round-headed tree; the bark is about 10 mm. thick, reddish brown, furrowed and scaly; the twigs are white-woolly, soon becom- ing smooth or nearly so, red-brown and finally hght brown and bearing spine-like spurs; the winter buds are small, blunt and bright red; the leaves are membranous, ovate or some- times nearly triangular, 3 to 8 cm. long, usually sharp-pointed, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, margined by sharp glandular teeth, or often lobed, red-brown and velvety beneath when unfolding, soon becoming quite smooth, bright green, with impressed veins above, paler, smooth or nearly so, and prominently veined, beneath, the slender, somewhat glandular leaf- stalk 4 to 5 cm. long. The very fragrant flowers, appearing in May, when the leaves have fuUy expanded, are rose-colored, seldom white, 4 to 5 ^'°- 378- - American Crab Apple, cm. across, in few-flowered cymes, on slender smooth pedicels to 4 ; the calyx-tube is urn-sh
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