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eastern states," and for more than a century it has been a favorite garden plant in America and 
Europe.’ 
1 “Crab-Trees are a species of wild apple-trees, which grow in 
the woods and glades, but especially on little hillocks, near rivers. 
In New Jersey the tree is rather scarce ; but in Pennsylvania it is 
plentiful. Some people had planted a single tree of this kind near 
their farms, on account of the fine smells which its flowers afford. 
It had begun to open some of its flowers about a day or two ago ; 
however, most of them were not yet open. They are exactly like 
the blossoms of the common apple-trees, except that the colour is a 
little more reddish in the Crab-trees; though some kinds of the 
cultivated trees have flowers which are very near as red: but the 
_ smell distinguishes them plainly ; for the wild trees have a very 
pleasant smell, somewhat like the rasp-berry. The apples, or crabs, 
are small, sour, and unfit for anything but to make vinegar of. 
They lie under the trees all the winter, and acquire a yellow colour. 
The Crab-trees 
opened their flowers only yesterday and to-day ; whereas, the culti- 
vated apple-trees, which are brought from Europe, had already lost 
their flowers.” (Kalm, Travels, English ed. ii. 166.) 
2 Rev. Hort. 1877, 410, t. 
They seldom begin to rot before spring comes on. 
