MY GARDEN 



have a variety called Scheideckeri with larger flow- 

 ers of paler colour but otherwise similar to the 

 foregoing. Very charming as a neighbour for P. flori- 

 bunda is the Siberian Crab, P. baccata, bearing pure- 

 white flowers. P. coronaria, the American Sweet 

 Scented Crab, grows rapidly into a picturesque tree al- 

 most thirty feet high and clothes itself with large single 

 pale pink blossoms with the fragrance of violets. Ex- 

 quisite, also, and attaining about the same height, is P. 

 spectabilis with great clusters of blush-pink, semi-double 

 blossoms. Perhaps the treasure of the family is 

 Bechtel's Double Flowered American Crab,* the latest to 

 bloom in this garden. It makes a nice, symmetrical 

 little tree, and after the leaves have accomplished their 

 pale young growth come myriads of pink double blos- 

 soms like little Daily Roses that have the Sweet Violet 

 fragrance. Near this tree we enjoy a group of gray- 

 white Florentine Iris and a gay colony of bright cherry- 

 coloured Tulip Pride of Haarlem. 



The Crabs root deeply and enjoy a warm, dry soil, 

 well prepared to a considerable depth, so that the garden 

 borders suit them well. They are very hardy, not 

 nearly so deliberate in their growth as their fellows of the 

 orchard, and forming very nice-sized trees in a few years. 



Blooming in April and May, many bulbs are at hand 

 to flower with great effect beneath their spreading 

 branches: the paler- coloured Daffodils, Poet's Narcis- 



*Pyrus ioensis. 



