248.* P. communis, L. Wild Peartree.[…]249. P. malus, L. Crab Appletree. Dodgesglen and on fences.—common.

Dimly, subduedly sweet, were those days, clouded perhaps a little with boyish melancholy, and now brought to my remembrance by the play of sunshine and shadow in and round familiar nooks, by the leafy woodbine under the garden wall, by the sparkling dewy grass-blades, and the odor of the breathing woods, by the crab-appletree hedge, covered with grape-vines, and bordered with blackberry bushes, and inclosing the several fields, each shedding its own peculiar fragrance;

Pyrus malus, Linn. / Pommier sauvage. / Wild apple. / Crab appletree.

The local difficulty he encountered was mainly in root killing, and the plan he adopted was grafting in hardy crab appletree roots, thus producing strong trees, not likely to winter kill, that are now in an excellent healthy condition.

So lilting was the cadence that the lambs started to gambol ’round the crab appletree like children about a Maypole.

drinking bout at Bidford: slept under crab appletree

Crab appletree

Meaning

Noun