44 NATL. ARBORETUM CONTRIB. NO. 2, U.S. DEPT. AGR. 



tion, Brookings, S. Dak. Originated from a cross made by Niels. 

 E. Hansen. 



Description : Flowers ; single, expanding buds coral red, open 

 pinkish white, approx. 3.8 cm. across. Fruit ; orange yellow with a 

 few scattered carmine spots, approx. 4.5 cm. in diam. 



Location: (B). 



cv. Kola 



M. coronaria cv. Elk River X M. cv. Oldenburg (apple). 



Introd. in 1922 by South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Brookings, S. Dak. Originated from a cross made by Niels E. 

 Hansen. 



Determined by Bernhard Nebel, Agr. Experiment Station, 

 Geneva, N.Y., to be a tetraploid with 68 chromosomes. This was 

 the first known tetraploid among cultivated crabapples and apples 

 (30). Considered by Arie F. den Boer to be an excellent ornamental 

 for large parks (22). To the Sioux Indian, "Kola" means friend. 



Description: Flowers; single, expanding buds rose to salmon 

 pink, open pale pink, approx, 4.6 cm. across. Fruit; greenish yel- 

 low, fragrant, approx. 5 cm. in diam. 



Location: (I). 



cv. Lady Northcliffe* 



Of uncertain parentage. Listed by Donald Wyman (67) as a 

 M. baccata clone. 



Discovered before 1929 at Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, 

 Hertfordshire, England. Introd. into the U.S.A. by The Morton 

 Arboretum, Lisle, 111. 



Description: Flowers; single, expanding buds rose red, open 

 pale pink fading to white, approx. 2.7 cm. across. Fruit; yellow 

 and red, approx. 1.4 cm. in diam. 



Location: (C). 



cv. Leslie 14 



An open pollinated seedling of an unknown Rosybloom crab- 

 apple. Syns: M. cv. Leslie Copper Leaf; M. cv. Leslie Redleaf 

 crabapple. 



Originated at Northwest Nursery Co., Valley City, N. Dak., 

 from seed received from the Experimental Farm, Canada Dept. 

 of Agr., Morden, Manitoba, Canada. Named in 1945 for W. R. 

 Leslie of the Canada Dept. of Agr., Morden, Manitoba, Canada, 



14 Not to be confused with M. cv. Leslie, an apple listed by Ragan, W. H. 

 (-45). 



