FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS 405 



Name. 



Country or I Colour 

 Origin and and 



Natural Order. Season. 



General Remarks. 



Pyrus baccata (Sibe- 

 rian Crab) 



'P. coronaria (Ameri- 

 can or Fragrant 

 Crab) 



Himalaya to Japan 



Eastern United 



States. 

 Introduced 1724 



Rose pink 

 May 



Rose; 

 May and 

 early Jvme 



'P. floribmida 



Japan 



Rose; 



late Spring 



and early 



Summer 



P. Malus (Crab 

 Apple) 



Britain ; 

 Europe and Asia 



White ; 

 late Spring 



be mentioned, Bertini, which 

 is of rather more upright 

 growth than the type, and 

 has large white flowers and 

 scarlet fruits ; and Genuina, 

 which differs from the type 

 in its more open growth and 

 larger fruits. Xanthocarpa 

 has bright golden iruits. 



A beautifiil and neglected tree, 

 15 feet to 20 feet high, with 

 large, deliciously - fragrant 

 flowers. It is worth growing 

 on this account alone. The 

 leaves are dark-green and 

 lobed, and the fruits sweetly 

 scented and grass-green, not 

 veryornamental. Itshould be- 

 come more popular in English 

 gardens. The variety flore- 

 pleno has large, almost double , 

 rich rose-coloured flowers. 



A delightful tree and happily 

 much planted in gardens. 

 It is quite small, little more 

 than a graceful bush, rarely 

 exceeding a height of 10 feet, 

 wreathed in flowers in the 

 appropriate season, the buds 

 intense crimson, but opening 

 out a paler shade, and thus 

 there is a gradation from one 

 colour to th e other. It should 

 be freely grouped and planted 

 in small and large gardens. 

 The fruits are yellow, and 

 about the size of a pea. There 

 are two good varieties, Atro- 

 sanguinea, which has flowers of 

 much deeper colour than those 

 of the type, and flore-pleno 

 or Malus Parkmanni, as it is 

 more often called. This has 

 semi-double red flowers, and 

 reddish wood and leaves. 



This is the Crab Apple of the 

 hedgerow, and although not 

 very ornamental, three varie- 

 ties of it deserve notice. 

 These are *coccinea, which 

 has large scarlet fruits in 

 abundance; flore-albo-pleno, 

 with large semi-double, pure 

 white flowers, and Neidzwetz- 

 kyanus, a very handsome 

 form with purple-tinted leaves 

 and fruit. But no tree can 

 become popular with such a 

 name. We hope it will be 

 changed. Pendula is welcome 

 for its drooping growth. 



