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THE ALPINE GARDEN. 
PRIMULA HARROVIANA. 
THE a little Primala illustrated in 
Fig. 156 ga zu a Award of Merit санат shown 
by Mr. A. Bulley at the meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society on Maj ast 
Seeds of it were collected on s behalf Mr 
Cooper i in Bhotan in 1915, 
s det ned to be a mph 
med 
bareh Botan 
bears a rem resemblance to the 
eidii t the 
fact, it гай pred an easier 
or it is not so liable to damp 
w-growing plant with 
crenate 
i 8 
d of pure white flov The 
t half an inch in Possim with 
the edges of t Vie corolla fimbriated. 
The plant has po ed quite hardy at pice 
and has been pro pagate ted both by 
of seeds and divis in. Ж 
THE GARDENERS 
brancnes are cog or UM their brilliant red, 
scarlet or емы i 
Ma BACCAT SHURICA is = arliest 
M: 
af не! Crab- apples p open its fl de 
the Arboretum. ative Ln Manchuria, Korea 
Г form of 
arn e 
the Danter 
pm diners. whicn are produced in 
retu 
ud peer 
i are pure white, rather more than an 
profusion, 
incl 
inch across, and more aa than those of 
any other "Asiatic Crab-apple. The fruit 1 
round, yellow or red, me not larger Mss a 
large pea. A form of this tree (var. Jackii 
cists m Korea by Mr. Jack in 1905, 
distinguished by its large, dark scarlet fruit 
Мура Crab-app ple, whicn is still rare 
The 
= йын country, раш find a 
s for the fragrance of the : 
"M. ALUS CERAS авна Лы ete e of the 
arly flowering rea M ар ind is believed to 
be a hybrid between М. oe and М. pruni- 
folia. =F ees in m an ue naut suffi- 
cient room. for development, 
Bm 
E 
ill 
bro: E eH. ана, 
often drooping, 
a bem ge, bod tree with 
Mich Pk 
regular head oi 
Fic. 156.—PRiwMULA HARKOVIANA; FLOWERS WHITE (R.H.S. 
TREES AND SHRUBS. 
ASIATIC CRAB-APPLES. 
tin — recently 
Harv Univer- 
sity, Jamaica TA Mass.. U.S. a, th at the 
flowering of the Asiatic Crab- -app les makes one 
of the pr incipal spec tac ular displays of the year 
in the Arboretum; und of these displays only 
that made by e Litus attracts a larger бср 
of visitors. . It 1 be seen that the Arboret 
authorities чин D old generic name of Malus 
for mong these Crab-appl T 
e 
n 
s ios А 
dnd ы "aw or umn pet the 
AWARD Or MERIT, MAY 27, 1919). 
branches. The 
than tnose of 
with pure white 
the fr 
flowers are fragrant 2 ar larger 
the other Asiatic -apples, 
or occasionally greenish petals ; 
hich v n different 
ear rly 
rare AA know n only in Lag sme and by n 
s is believed to have ‘been introduced 
a and be a 
lection. The largest plants 
year with their small, pale pink, delicate flowers 
CHRONICLE. 
[JuNE 28, 1919. 
sia 
fruit, 
nt of 
wnich be followed by light yellow 
often rose colour on one cheek. `A pla 
Malus m ellen first came to ns Arboretuin 
trom е а, Aris бев іп 18 the 
88, plants 
e des scendants ‘of that plant. 
the 
is ne > rarest ‹ Asiatic Crab- 
oes in western gardens, 
Marus Ha seer cre wi ig its form Parkmanij 
which we double flov is perhaps the most 
dis ын of “| Crab apples in the colour of its 
rose-red flow It shapely small tree, 
vith erect d pueda stem forming a 
narrow vase-like head, and dark green leaves, 
The globose reddish fruit is a larger than а 
nall p P Cr 
1e 
by Gec 
aido, ut has & test 
Whatever ia d origin, 
e of the most distinct 
small dores which flowe 
day May. 
ta M 
rb dn 
arge à 
was among the 
rst Japanese trees to reac ch this cour 
Dr orge 
was first planted | in 
sho 
on ыў. 
v 
beaut: 
uring the 
tiful of ti 
ear 
in 
Mars THEIFERA, from central and western 
spurs Eke numerous 
1 
еб Us FLORIB by 
sidered the жет "beautiful n" p 
introduced into Holland by 
in successio 
rast. 
ses fr 
ge, It is a han 
а опе of б 
ples in the А 
other 
mantis 
in 
г 
Surope by Von Siebold 
de 
relat ted to Hall’s 
ye eg gy Re: 
and 1907 
Von 
Tn 
spec 
fond. ot thes 
flor 
Pa 
rab, 
rather 
and 
epare the palatable БАО which they cal 
ea. From this fact the specific name is 
m anis: 
rab днн 
"binds, 
uit 
MOM Физ 
Arbor sy 
on 
Japan 
It is a 
Siebol 
It is 
the 
win nter 
o Grabs 
Pra © and 
somer zi ud “than 
autiful 
species 
into 
low, 
nse shrub of s reading nabit with the leaves 
zi ch smali 
on igorous branchle three e-lobbed, 
s white tinged with rose in co 
small yellow fruits. ood specimen m 
seen on the left-hand side of t Fo 
a V. Siebold's Crab really 
m ‘of а species common on the Co 
of Quel paer si and on the mountains © 
Japan and Hokka ido, to which the 
arborescens has been given. is 
often thirty feet or more tall, with 
wide-spreading branches, twiggy branch! 
minute fruit yellow some and red 
individu als. Althou the flowers are 
ced in im uantities 
2 
ee 
raised in the Arboretum from see 
d sent 1 
