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Pyrus betulaefolia, Bunge. Fig. 3281. Tree, to 20 ft., without 
thorns, the buds and branchlets gray-tomentose, the head rather narrow, 
the foliage pale and the fls. rather small: lvs. ovate-acuminate or 
rhombic-ovate-acuminate, cuneate at base, long-stalked, sharp-serrate, 
becoming shining green above, pale tomentose or glabrous beneath: fls. 
white, 2/3in. across, the styles and cells of ovary 2: fr. nearly 
globular, size of a pea, brown and dotted, the calyx falling. China. 
Hardy in New England and Canada. H.H. 1879, pp. 318, 319. G.F. 7:225 
(reduced in Fig. 3281). A.F. 13: 1396. Gng. 6:309.—A worthy plant for 
ornament, bearing a profusion of fls. in advance of the lvs. or at the 
time of the expanding of the lvs. It has been used as a stock for some 
of the pomological pears. It is subject to pear-blight.
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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