. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. PEAR THORN. PEAR HAW. Cmtafius (ometitosa i Fig. 298. Mature leaves, fruit and nutlets (the spotting of the leaves is abnormal) ; branchletin winter. 299. Trunk with leaves and fruit at base. Near Rochester, N. Y. i Handbook of TreEvS of the Northerx States and Caxadj The Pear Thorn is a very distinct species,but not of large stature. It sometimes attainsa height of 18 or 20 ft. with upright or spread-ing top of rigid tortuous branches and trunk5 or 10 in. in diameter, or is often shru
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. PEAR THORN. PEAR HAW. Cmtafius (ometitosa i Fig. 298. Mature leaves, fruit and nutlets (the spotting of the leaves is abnormal) ; branchletin winter. 299. Trunk with leaves and fruit at base. Near Rochester, N. Y. i Handbook of TreEvS of the Northerx States and Caxadj The Pear Thorn is a very distinct species,but not of large stature. It sometimes attainsa height of 18 or 20 ft. with upright or spread-ing top of rigid tortuous branches and trunk5 or 10 in. in diameter, or is often shrubbywith several stems. The trunks are usuallywell armed with formidable thorns and cov-ered with rather smooth bark of pale gray orbrown color and finally exfoliating in thinnishplate-like scales. It is of wider range thanmost of the American species, occupying lowrich soil in localities from eastern Xew Yorkto Kansas and from the Great Lakes to thesouthernmost slopes of the Alleghanies, but isnot everywhere in this range abundant. West-ern New York and southeastern Missouri seemto be th? regions of greatest abundance. Itis easily recognizable o
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