HISTORY, PROGENY, AND LOCATIONS OF CRABAPPLES 25 



cv. Adams* 



Originated as a chance seedling about 1947 at the West Spring- 

 field, Mass., residence of the late Walter Adams, former president 

 of Adams Nursery, Inc., Westfield, Mass. Syn: M. adamsi. As of 

 1967, the original tree is still standing. Disease free (41). 



Description: Flowers; single, expanding buds red opening to 

 pink, approx. 4 cm. across. Fruit; carmine red, approx. 2 cm. in 

 diam. 



Locations: (C), (E), (0). 



cv. Albright* 



An open pollinated seedling of M. baccata and an unknown 

 Rosybloom crabapple. Extremely hardy. 



Introd. and named in 1964 by Research Station, Research 

 Branch, Canada Dept. of Agr., Beaverlodge, Alberta, Canada. 



Description: Flowers; single, expanding buds and open flowers 

 pink, approx. 5 cm. across. Fruit; dark purple with red flesh, ap- 

 prox. 2 cm. in diam. and over 3 cm. long, remaining on tree until 

 removed by birds in February. Disease free (bl). 



Location: (H). 



cv. Alexis* 



M. baccata 



M. pruni folia 



M. X robusta 



Unknown- 



cv. Alexis* 



An open pollinated selection grown from seed collected in 1897 

 by Niels E. Hansen from the Imperial Botanical Gardens, St. 

 Petersburg (now Leningrad), Russia. 



Introd. in 1919 by South Dakota Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Brookings, S. Dak. Alexis is a Russian male name. 



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

 white, approx. 4 cm. across. Fruit; bright red to deep crimson 

 with bluish bloom, approx. 3 cm. in diam. 



Locations: (B), (I). 



cv. Almey 



A second generation (F L >) hybrid of Malus baccata X M. pumila 

 var. niedzivetzkyana. Syn: M. cv. Sunglory. 



Selected, introd., and named in 1945 by the Experimental Farm, 

 Canada Dept. of Agr., Morden, Manitoba, Canada. Named in 

 honor of J. R. Almey, horticulturist of the Canadian Pacific 



