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cv. Nipissing 



M. pumila var. niedzwetzkyana X M. baccata. 11 



Introd. by the Central Experimental Farm, Canada Dept. of 

 Agr., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Originated from a cross made in 

 1920 by Miss Isabella Preston. Named in 1930 for Nipissing Lake 

 in southeast central Ontario, Canada. 



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

 pale rose pink to pale lavender, approx. 4.2 cm. across. Fruit; 

 mostly dark red with orange yellow, shaded side bronze green, 

 approx. 3.5 cm. in diam. 



Locations: (I), (0), (Q). 



cv. Oakes* 



An open pollinated seedling. Selected and introd. by William 

 Oakes, Glenelm Nursery, Miami, Manitoba, Canada. This cultivar 

 has been mistakenly listed as being the same as the introduction 

 MR 450 of the Experimental Farm, Canada Dept. of Agr., Morden, 

 Manitoba, Canada. 



M. pumila var. niedzwetzkyana-* 



cv. Scugogr — I 

 Unknown 1 = cv. Oakes* 



Unknown 



Description: Flowers; single, purplish red. Fruit; dark red, 

 approx. 4 cm. in diam. 

 Location: (I). 



cv. Oekcmomierat Echtermeyer* 



M. floribunda 



M. prunifolia cv. Pendula- 



cv. Exzellenz ThieP 



= cv. Oekonomierat 

 Echtermeyer* 



M. pumila var. 



niedzwetzkyana — 



Introd. in 1914 by the Ludwig Spath Nurseries, Berlin, Germany. 

 Syns : M . cv. Echtermeyer ; M. X gloriosa cv. Oekonomierat Echter- 

 meyer; M. cv. Hugo Echtermeyer; M. cv. Pink Weeper; M. X 

 purpurea cv. Pendula. 



Description: Habit; semiweeping. Flowers; single, expanding 

 buds deep purplish red, open purplish pink, approx. 4 cm. across. 

 Fruit; purplish red before ripening, later turning a dark reddish 

 brown to greenish brown, approx. 2.5 cm. in diam. 



Locations: (0), (P), (Q). 



17 See footnote 16. 



