CHICAGO, JUNE I, 1895. 



DOUBLE-FLOWERED APPLE TREE 



Trees and Shrubs. 



DOUBLE-FLOWERBD flPriE TRBES. 



There are several of these at Dosoris, 

 and when the3' are in bloom (thev were 

 at best, from May 15th to 20th, this 

 year) they are exceedingly full and white. 

 Our illustration, engraved from a photo-, 

 graph taken here last year, shows a little 

 tree about 11 feet high. The flowers 

 are white, showy, and in close, short- 

 stemmed bunches, and they last in good 

 condition much longer than do single 

 ones. After the flowerscome an immense 

 crop of small apples about 2 inches in dia- 



meter that hang in ropes on the branch- 

 lets and which are quite ornamental. 

 Economically, however, they are of no 

 consequence, for they are rather sweetish 

 or tasteless or insipid. Cows and horses 

 are very fond ot them though, and 

 promptly eat up every fallen fruit. In 

 color they are yellowish with a warm red 

 cheek. Blooming at the same time, we 

 also have very beautiful double-flowered 

 pale rose-colored sorts. But there is great 

 confusion in theirnomenclature. They are 

 sold in nurseries under the names Pyriis 

 spectabilis, and P. Malus spectabilis. 



These double-flowered apple trees are 

 now (May 24-) some days past their best, 

 but P. coronartH, our wild crab apple, 

 has just opened to its best. It is the lat- 

 est and most fragrant of our apple trees, 



and although only a native crab, as an 

 ornamental flowering tree we have noth- 

 ing of its season that is more beautiful. 



The Japanese crab or Toringo apple- 

 tree that we illustrated in last issue is 

 still in bloom, but some days past its 

 best. 



Other trees now in bloom comprise 

 Magnolia Fraseri, yellowish white; M. 

 cordata, yellow; M. acuminata, white; 

 M. bypohuca, white, very fragrant, and 

 scattering flowers on the hybrid-Chinese 

 and Japanese sorts. The snowdrop tree, 

 Halesia tetraptera, is at its finest and 

 dropping, and the fleecy panicles of the 

 flowering ash (Fraxinus Ornus) are 

 about white and spreading fra^ance for 

 rods around. Lilacs are in their heyday, 

 bush honeysuckles are full, American atjd 



