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45670 to 45691— Continued. 



involucres are deeply cleft and shorter tban the very finely pubescent 

 nutlets. There is a large variation in the involucres and in the pubescence 

 of the leaves, petioles, and branches. (Adapted from Sargent, Plantae 

 Wilsonianae, vol. 2, p. JfoS.) 



45674. X Malus aknoldiana Rehder. Malaceae. 



(Roots.) A plant which is evidently a hybrid of Malus floribnnda ap- 

 peared spontaneously in the Arboretum several years ago and has been 

 named M. arnoMiana. This plant promises to remain a smaller tree 

 than M. floribnnda, but its long, spreading, and arching branches are very 

 graceful and the flowers produced on long stems are more than twice 

 as large as those of its parent. The flowers of this interesting tree are 

 considered by some persons more beautiful than those of any other crab 

 apple. (Adapted from Arnold Arboretum Bulletins of Popular Informa- 

 tion, Nos. S and 22.) 



45675. Malus baccata maxdshurica (Maxim.) C. Schneid. Malaceae. 



Crab apple. 



(Roots.) Malus baccata mandshtirica is the earliest of the crab apples 

 to open its flower buds in the Arboi-etum. A native of Manchuria, Chosen 

 (Korea), and northern Japan, it is the eastern form of the better known 

 Malus bacc-ata, the Siberian crab apple, which reached Europe more than 

 a century ago and for a long time was one of only two Asiatic crab 

 apples known in western gardens. The Manchurian form as it grows 

 in the Arboretum is a tree 12 to 1.5 feet tall and broad ; the flowers, which 

 are produced in profusion, are pure white, rather more than an inch 

 across, and more fragrant than those of any other Asiatic crab apple. 

 The fruit is round, yellow or red, and not larger than a large pea. This 

 crab apple, which is still rare in this country, for the fragrance of the 

 flowers alone should find a place in all collections. (Adapted from 

 Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 5, p. 2871.) 



45676. Malus fusca (Raf.) C. Schneid. Malaceae. Apple. 



(Roots.) A shrub or small tree, sometimes 30 to 40 feet tall, with 

 ovate-lanceolate sharply serrate leaves. The white flowers, an inch in 

 diameter, are borne on slender pubescent pedicels, and appear when the 

 leaves are nearly or quite full grown. The fruit is oblong, three-fourths 

 of an inch or less long, and yellowish or greenish in color. According to 

 Sargent, this tree " grows usually in deep, rich soil in the neighborhood 

 of streams, often forming almost impenetrable thickets of considerable 

 extent, and attains its greatest size in the valleys of Washington and 

 Oregon." The range extends from northern California to Alaska. 

 (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 5, p. 

 2875. ) 



45677. X Malus magde:bubgensis Zimmerm. Malaceae. Apple. 



(Roots.) Malus magdeburfien.%is is considered to be a hybrid between 

 M. spectabilis and M. dasyphylla, which was found among a collection of 

 trees planted in the city gardens of Magdeburg and supposed to have been 

 originally imported from Japan. (Adapted from MoUer, Deutsche 

 Gdrtner-Zeitung, vol. 20, p. 254.) 



