. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. PYROLA gindsa, Gray, with pink or rose-colored fls. and subcor- date to obovate, dull Ivs., occurs in swamps, Arctic regions, and as far south as Ga., New Mex. ajid Calif. Var. asarifdlia, Hook., with purple fls. and round kid- ney-shaped to ovate-orbicular Ivs., occur
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. PYROLA gindsa, Gray, with pink or rose-colored fls. and subcor- date to obovate, dull Ivs., occurs in swamps, Arctic regions, and as far south as Ga., New Mex. ajid Calif. Var. asarifdlia, Hook., with purple fls. and round kid- ney-shaped to ovate-orbicular Ivs., occurs northward. C. F. Wheeler. FYROLA, One-flowered. Moneses grandiflora. Ft'EUS (Latin name of pear tree). Sometimes spelled Pints. Rosacea. Pome Fkuits. Flowers normally perfect, regular, in spring; torus urn-shaped and at- tached to the carpels and finally closing over them, and with them becoming fleshy in fruit; calyx-lobes 5 and persistent upon the top of the young fruit, or in some cases falling away at partial maturity; petals 5, white or red; stamens 20 or more; pistils 2 to 5, crowning a 2- to 5-loculed ovary in which the locules are usually 2-seeded. Fig. 2018. Pyrus is a polymorphous genus, comprising some 30 to .iO species in the northern hemi- sphere. Trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves which are simple in the common species but compound in P. heterophylla and rarely in some of the apple tribe. The species are cultivated for their edible fruits and for ornament. Apples and Pears are the leading species. The species are mostly small trees, bearing clusters of showy white or blush flowers with the leaves or in advance of them. They are natives of the northern hemisphere, mostly of oool temperate , and the greater part of them are hardy in the northern states. They are of easy culture. The pear-like species may be worked on Pear stocks, and the apple-like species on Apple stocks. The fruit of Pyrus is of the kind known to botanists as a pome. The morphology of
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