Malus spectabilis from northern China is a tall shrub or small tree 
with erect, slightly spreading stems, large pink flowers which in the cul- 
tivated plants are more or less double, and medium-sized yellow fruits. 
This is an old inhabitant of gardens where several forms have appeared. 
The handsomest of these is known as the Rivers Crab ( M . spectabilis 
Riversii) from the English nurseryman by whom it was raised or distrib- 
uted. The Parkman Crab ( M . Halliana) owes its name to the fact that 
it was first cultivated outside of Japan by Francis Parkman, the histo- 
rian, who received it from there in 1860. It is a small and not very vig- 
orous tree with dark bark and bright, clear pink, semidouble flowers 
drooping on long, slender stalks. This is a Chinese plant now only known 
in gardens and long cultivated in those of Japan. It should be in a list of 
the four or five most beautiful Crabapples. Another handsome plant in 
this group is Malus Scheideckeri which is supposed to be a hybrid be- 
tween M. floribunda and M. prunifolia. It is vigorous and fast-grow- 
ing, with erect stems which form a narrow head, pink and white flowers 
and light yellow fruits. 
Interesting species now well established at the Arboretum are Malus 
zumi from Japan, with pink and white flowers, M. toringo from northern 
China and Japan, and M. Sargentii from Japan. The two last flower 
late, have small flowers in crowded clusters and are distinguished by the 
three-lobed leaves on the shoots of the year. Unlike all other Crab- 
apples, M. Sargentii is a low shrub growing naturally on the borders of 
salt marshes. 
The so-called Siberian Crabapples of pomologists are trees of much 
ornamental value and are well worth cultivating for the beauty of their 
flowers and fruits; they are fast-growing trees with straight stems and 
pyramidal heads, large white flowers, and brilliant, often translucent, 
red or yellow, long-hanging fruits. The fruit is used in preserves and 
jellies, and for their fruits these trees are much grown in regions too cold 
for the successful cultivation of the common Apple. One of the most 
curious Apple-trees in the collection, M. Niedzwetzkyana , has deep pur- 
plish red flowers and fruit, even the flesh being purple, purple leaves at 
least early in the season and dark bark. It comes from central Asia and 
is probably a form of M. pumila , one of the parents of the common 
Apple-tree, as seedlings raised in the Arboretum have sometimes purple 
but more often green leaves. 
The Apple of the northwest coast (Af. fusca or rivularis), with its dis- 
tinct oblong fruits, can be seen in the group on the Forest Hills Road 
and with it a hybrid of this species and the common Apple, which has 
been named M. Dawsoniana. The Crabapples of eastern North America 
bloom later than the Old World species. They all have large, pink, fra- 
grant flowers, and fragrant, green or yellowish fruit characterized by the 
sticky exudation with which it is covered. There are large plants of M. 
coronaria and M. ioensis, the two common eastern species, in the Forest 
Hills group opposite the end of the Meadow Road. There are large 
plants of the southern M. angustifolia on Hickory Path opposite the 
large group of Pterocaryas; and in the Peter’s Hill group can be seen 
flowering plants of M. glaucescens, a species recently distinguished in 
western New York and now known to range along the Appalachian Moun- 
tains to North Carolina. The last of the Crabapples to flower is the 
