& 
Malus Halliana f. Parkmanii, 
though peculiarly distinct, is 
Malus floribunda, the best. 
known of the Asiatie Crabs, is 
wreathed in pink blossoms in 
May-June. Original country 
unknown 
The Parkman Crab is consid- 
ered by many to be the most 
beautiful of the Asiatic Crab- 
apples 
frequently confused with others 
of the Crabapples 
Japanese Cherries and Asiatic Crabapples 
E. H. WILSON, ane 
Arboretum 
MANY OF THESE ARE ALREADY WELL KNOWN AND YET RARELY PLANTED IN OUR GARDENS — THE 
NOMENCLATURE IS HERE SET RIGHT AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE TREE IS MADE EASY 
[AuTHOoR’sS NoTE: “I wonder if you know how often you mention a wonderful tree or vine which No catalogue that I have 
ever seen (and I have dozens) ever mentions, and I want to ask do you write expecting us to buy these things or are you merely 
telling us of their beauties?” Thus writes a correspondent from Indiana, squarely putting a question which very many others 
have asked in less exact words since this series of articles began last June. This being the case it would seem that the time 
had come for some definite reply. 
Now, with very rare exceptions, the plants mentioned in these articles have been in commerce anywhere from five to 
one hundred years. With deliberate intent I have abstained from detailing the beauties of plants which are not purchasable. 
The future can well be left to take care of those. Certainly I write for the purpose, and in the hope, of inducing garden 
lovers to grow in their gardens a greater variety of beautiful hardy woody plants. Also, I have another purpose which I 
will divulge in due season. So much for that part of my correspondent’s question which has direct reference to myself. 
As to the other part: it is for those who make a business of dealing in this class of plants to give answer. Yet, in fair- 
ness, it may be said that we can scarcely expect the nurserymen to exhibit all the push and enterprise necessary to give 
to American gardens all the variety of good things they should possess. Amateurs too must do a share and this may in a 
measure be accomplished by dunning their favorite nurserymen for the particular plants desired. We are really only at the 
beginning of things and the amateur must take a lead and insist on his dealer supplying the plants he desires; not merely 
those which the dealer may happen to have in stock. Heretofore the position has been that of the dealer as nurse, and the 
amateur as child. But horticulture in this country is fast emerging from its swaddling clothes; indeed, it may be said to 
be well into the adolescent stage in many states of the Union. 
larger voice in the variety that shall be grown in gardens. 
the leaven that will conduce to the upbuilding of American gardens. 
in both amateur and dealer becoming more and more progressive.—E. H. W.] 
HE group of plants to be consid- 
ered in this article is not ex- 
ceeded in beauty and hardiness 
by any other, and yet its members 
are comparatively rarely seen in Ameri- 
can gardens. A few are fairly well 
known to older garden-lovers and here 
and there in city parks, like those of 
Rochester, N. Y., several may be seen 
in all their beauty. But truly there 
should be no garden, even a suburban 
garden, without its Flowering Cherry 
and its Crabapple tree. 
When I think of the popularity cer- 
tain plants of much less lasting value 
* Copyright, 1916, by Doubleday, Page & Co. 
have attained I cannot help thinking 
that it is want of knowledge and not 
want of appreciation that has kept in 
the background the extremely ornamen- 
tal plants with which this article deals. 
If any reader will visit the Arnold Ar- 
boretum in late April and May, and see 
the collection of these plants in blos- 
som, he will depart hungry for them 
and will not rest content until one or 
more be growing in his own garden. 
In the cooler parts of the temperate 
regions of western lands there is no 
more beautiful sight than the Apple or- 
chards in full blossom in the spring 
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This means that the lover of plants must, and will, have a 
Increased knowledge of, and love for, plants of every kind is 
The solution of the present problem will be found 
unless it be the same orchards in au- 
tumn laden with ruddy fruit. But the 
utilitarian is apt to stifle the aesthetic 
spirit in so far as this and other fa- 
miliar sights are concerned. The com- 
mon Plum and the common Cherry 
suffer in the same way, yet the winsome 
beauty of their flowers is undeniable. 
Again, an orchard of Peach trees in 
bloom is wondrously pretty though the 
trees have not the picturesque appear- 
ance of aged Apple trees. 
However, if familiarity has dulled 
our spontaneous enthusiasm for the 
floral charms of these indispensable 
