Creative Woodworks & crafts 2005-04, страница 46

Apple (eating type): Mains domesUca, and Crab Apple (also known as wild apple): Mains f,vlvestris.

Some books list the species as I'yrus. but ihe Ma tux designation is now the common usage. For the purpose of woodworking, all apples will be combined in this profile bccause there is slight, il' any, difference in t.lie woodworking charae teristics of the majority of these species, and all are members of the Rose (Rosacea?.) family because of their blossom characteristics.

There are more than 10,000 different kinds, domestic and crab, of apples growing in the temperate regions of the world, both north and south of the equator. The crab and domestic varieties do best on fertile, well drained sin I types, whether light clay, sand or loam in open areas. Both types will attain heights from several feet to not more than fifty feet, with large spreading crowns ami Irimk diameters ranging from a few inches to more than twenty-four inches in cxccptioua.1 Specimens.

There are a large number of crab apple trees native to North America with many of them distinctive species. However, they readily hybridize along the border's of their regions, making positive identification difficult. Many of them are used as ornamentals or as grafting stock for eating apples, while others have been imported for landscape use.

by VVes Demaresf

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