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M. prattii (Hemsl.) Schneid. 



Hemsley in Kew Bull. 1895: 16 (1895) as Pyrus pratti. Schnei- 

 der, 111. Handb. Laubh. 1: 719, fig. 397 p-p 1 , 398k-m (May 1906). 

 Illus: Lee, Forest Botany of China, 613 (1935). Syn: Docyniopsis 

 pratti (Hemsl.) Koid. 



Discovered by and named for A. E. Pratt. Grown from seed 

 Mains #1107 collected in 1909 by E. H. Wilson in Wa-Shan, west 

 Szechwan, China. Habitat: Szechwan, China. Introd. into U.S.A. 

 by the Arnold Arboretum. 



Location: (O). 



M. X purpurea (Barbier) Rehd. cv. Aldenhamensis* 



Gibbs in Gard. Chron., Ser. 3, 72: 110 (1922), without descrip- 

 tion as Pyrus malus aldenhamensis; Rehder in Jour. Arnold Arb. 

 7: 27 (1926, March) as Malus purpurea var. aldenhamensis; 

 Rehder, Bibliography of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs, 270a, 1949 

 as Malus purpurea f. aldenhamensis. Syns: Malus floribunda 

 aldenhamensis Lamproy; Malus sylvestris var. aldenhamensis 

 Bailey. 



M. halliana — i 



M. X. atrosanguinea* 1 



M. sieboldii — ' = M . X purpurea 



M. pumila var. niedzwetzkyana ' cv. Aldenhamensis* 



Introd. into U.S.A. by the Arnold Arboretum. A chance seedling 

 that appeared, about 1915, at Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, 

 Hertfordshire, England. Selected by the Honorable Vicary Gibbs. 

 Propagations by Gibbs sent to the Arnold Arboretum in 1917 died. 

 Additional propagations sent to the Arnold Arboretum by Gibbs 

 in 1923 still growing under No. 11785. 



Description: Flowers; single and semidouble, expanding buds 

 maroon red, open purplish red fading to deep purplish pink, ap- 

 prox. 4.5 cm. across. Fruit; dark maroon red to maroon purple, 

 shaded side green to bronze, approx. 2 cm. in diam. 



Locations: (C), (P). 5 



M. X purpurea cv. Kornicensis 



Originated by Kornik Arboretum, Kornik, Poland. Introd. into 



B Received at the National Arboretum in 1942 as a rooted sucker of the 

 original tree, from the U.S. Dept. of Agr. Plant Introduction Station, Glenn 

 Dale, Md., under U.S.D.A. Plant Introduction No. 52647. Orig. source Hon. 

 Vicary Gibbs, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England. 



