HISTORY, PROGENY, AND LOCATIONS OF CRABAPPLES 29 



Description : Flowers ; single, expanding buds pink to rose pink, 

 open white and pinkish white, approx. 5 cm. across. Fruit; dark 

 red, approx. 4 cm. in diam. Fastigiate habit. 



Location: (B). 



Progeny of M. cv. Beauty* : 

 M. cv. Midnight- (Wright, P. H.) 



cv. Bedford* 



A seedling of M. cv. Cluster (apple). 



Originated before 1928. Introd. by Expt. Farm, Research 

 Branch, Canada Dept. of Agr., Brandon, Manitoba. Extremely 

 hardy. 



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

 open pinkish white, approx. 4.2 cm. across. Fruit; pale yellow 

 flushed with pale or dark carmine, approx. 3.8 cm. in diam. Dis- 

 ease free Ul). 



Location: (I). 



cv. 



Big River 



M. baccata-. 



M. pumila var. niedzwetzkyana — | = cv. Big River' 



M. baccata 



cv. Hopa : 



An open pollinated seedling of M. baccata, probably pollinated 

 by M. cv. Hopa*. 



Introd. about 1944 by Percy H. Wright, Moose Range, Saskat- 

 chewan, Canada. Extremely hardy. 



Description: Flowers; single, deep rose pink to purplish red, 

 approx. 4>5 cm. across. Fruit ; bright red, approx. 0.8 cm. in diam. 



Locations: (H), (I). 



cv. Blanche Ames* 



An open pollinated seedling of M. spectabilis cv. Riversi*. 



Originated at the Arnold Arboretum and selected by Karl Sax 

 in 1939. Introd. by the Arnold Arboretum in 1947. Formerly A.A. 

 6639. Named for Mrs. Oakes Ames, wife of a former supervisor at 

 the Arnold Arboretum. Disease free (Al). 



Description: Flowers; semidouble, pink and white, approx. 3.5 

 cm. across. Fruit; yellow, approx. 0.8 cm. in diam. 



Locations: (C), (N), (S). 



cv. Bob White* 



A chance seedling of unknown parentage occurring in Mas- 

 sachusetts before 1876. 



Introd. into cultivation by the Arnold Arboretum. 

 Description : Flowers ; single, expanding buds pink, open white, 



