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desirable of the Asiatic Crabapples as a garden plant. It reached 
western Europe in 1776 and was cultivated as early as 1811 in the 
Elgin Botanic Garden established by Dr. David Hosack near New York 
in 1801. A more valuable garden plant is the eastern variety mand- 
shurica which is the earliest Crabapple to flower in this region and 
which has been covered for several days with its pure white or greenish 
flowers more fragrant than those of any other Crabapple. It is growing 
in the group at the base of Bussey Hill where it is a dense bushy tree 
about sixteen feet tall and nearly as broad. The abundant fruit is 
round, yellowish, and not much larger than a pea. 
Malus Sargentii, which was discovered by Professor Sargent on the 
borders of a salt marsh in the neighborhood of Muroran in northern 
Japan, is a prostrate shrub with wide-spreading rigid branches which 
lie flat on the ground. The flowers are borne in umbel-like clusters, 
are saucer-shaped, round and of the purest white, and are followed by 
masses of wine-colored fruits which remain on the plant until spring 
unless eaten by the birds. The plants usually sold in this country as 
M. Sargentii are tree-like in habit with a well-formed stem, short 
spreading branches and small flowers tinged with pink, and are proba- 
bly hybrids; and it is possible that the original plants in the Arbore- 
tum are the only ones in the United States. 
Malus Sieboldii was introduced from the gardens of Japan into 
Europe by Von Siebold in 1853. It is a low dense shrub of spreading 
habit, with leaves on vigorous branchlets, three-lobed, small flowers 
tinged with rose in color and small yellow fruits. It is really a dwarf 
form of a tree which is common on the Korean Island of Quelpaert, 
and on the mountains of central and northern Japan and is known as the 
variety arborescens. The bushy form was sent in 1876 to the Arbor- 
etum from France and the tree form was raised from seed collected 
in Japan by Professor Sargent in 1892. It is a tree often thirty feet 
or more tall with ascending, wide-spreading branches, white flowers 
and minute fruit which on some individuals is red and on others yellow. 
Although the flowers are small, they are produced in immense quanti- 
ties, and this species has the advantage of flowering later than the 
other Asiatic Crabapples. 
Malus prunifolia var. rinki. The wild type of this apple was dis- 
covered by Wilson in central China in 1907 and from seeds sent to the 
Arboretum plants were raised and have been flowering during the last 
five years. The fruit of this wild apple is longer than broad, yellow 
with a reddish cheek or entirely red; it is not depressed at the stem 
as in the common apple. This is the wild parent of the apples long 
cultivated in the Orient, and as it thrives in the hot moist valleys of 
central China as well as in the cold region in the neighborhood of 
Peking and in northern Korea it may prove valuable to pomologists in 
breeding a new race of apples. It was this apple which has been cul- 
tivated in northern China and it was early introduced into Japan where 
it furnished the apple of commerce until it was replaced in the late 
70s by the introduction of American apples. 
