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near the city of New York in 1811 and has been in this Arboretum 
since 1889. Early in the last century when it was the only Asiatic 
Crabapple cultivated in this country it was often found here, but fifty 
or sixty years ago was largely replaced by more recent introductions. 
Malus apectabilis is one of the largest of the Asiatic Crabapples in the 
collection, growing here to the height of from twenty-five to thirty feet 
and forming a wide vase-shaped crown of numerous spreading and 
ascending branchlets. The flowers are pale pink, single or semi-double, 
and very fragrant. The abundant fruit is pale yellow, nearly globose, 
and an inch in diameter. One of its parents is undoubtedly Mahis 
rinki, the edible Chinese apple. It is hard to form even a guess at 
its other parent. Malus micromalus, which is distinct in its pyramidal 
habit and early flowers, is possibly a hybrid of M. spectabilis. This 
plant is cultivated in Japan under the name of “kaido” under which it 
has been growing in the Arboretum since 1888 when plants were first 
obtained from the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. In habit it is one of 
the most distinct of all Crabapples and well worthy of a place in every 
collection of these plants. It is growing both along the Forest Hills 
Road and in the group at the base of Peter’s Hill, but the petals fell 
nearly a week ago. Mains Scheideckeri is also probably a hybrid 
of M. spectabilis, and possibly of M. micromalns. It originated in 
Germany several years ago, and has been in this Arboretum since 1889. 
It is a small pyramidal tree with small flowers produced in great 
abundance. 
Malus floribunda is now perhaps the most popular in this country of 
these supposed hybrids. It has generally been supposed to be a Japan- 
ese plant but it is not yet known there as a wild tree. It was found 
by Von Siebold in 1853 in a garden in Nagasaki and sent by him to 
Europe. Trees of this Crabapple imported from England in 1874 were 
planted in exceptionally deep and rich soil in the garden at Holm Lea, 
Brookline, and have become the largest and handsomest Crabapples in 
the United States, never failing to flower and produce great crops of 
fruit every year. The oldest plants in this Arboretum were raised 
from buds taken in 1876 from the plant in Francis Parkman’s garden 
in Jamaica Plain. Japanese botanists confounded Malus floribunda 
with the Parkman Crab, Malus Halleana, probably another hybrid of 
a pyramidal growth and red flowers, which Wilson did not find in Jap- 
anese gardens. M. floribunda is a broad, round-topped, tree-like shrub 
sometimes twenty-five feet tall, with stout branches and slender, arch- 
ing and pendant branchlets. The clusters of flowers are white when 
fully expanded and rose-red in the bud, and as they open in succession 
the two colors make a handsome contrast. The fruit is about the size 
of a pea, yellowish or yellowish brown on some plants and falls in early 
autumn, but on several seedlings raised at the Arboretum growing near 
the Administration Building the fruit remains on the branches until 
spring and supplies the birds with an abundant supply of food. These 
trees are evidently hybrids. Another hybrid possibly with M. robusta 
appeared here with a lot of seedlings of M. floribunda in 1883 and has 
been named M. arnoldiana. It has the habit and abundant flowers of 
M. floribunda but the flowers and fruit are nearly twice as large. It 
is a handsomer plant than M. floribunda, distinguished by its long 
