plant appeared in Germany a few years ago and is one of the most 
ornamental of Crabapples. The branches are erect and slightly spread- 
ing, forming a narrow pyramidal head. The pink and white flowers 
are produced in profusion, and the comparatively large yellow fruit is 
from three-quarters to an inch in diameter. Another pyramidal Crab- 
apple much better known is M. spectabilis, a native of northern China 
and an old inhabitant of gardens. The large pink flowers of this tree 
as it is known in gardens are more or less double; there are several 
forms, of which the best, perhaps, is Rivers’ Crab (M. spectabilis Riv- 
ersiana ), so named for the English nurseryman by whom it was raised 
or distributed nearly a century ago. The Crabapple of eastern Siberia, 
M. baccata, is a tall, narrow tree with white flowers on long, drooping 
stems, and yellow fruits not much larger than peas. This is a hardy 
and handsome tree, but it is less beautiful than several hybrids which 
were raised in the Arboretum many years ago from seeds sent from 
St. Petersburg. The parentage of these plants is uncertain, although 
M. baccata is no doubt one of the parents. They are wide-branching, 
vigorous trees with large pure white flowers and fruits two or three 
times larger than those of M. baccata. 
By some persons the Parkman Crab (M. Halliana) is considered, when 
it is in flower, the most beautiful of the group. It is a small and not 
very vigorous tree, with dark bark, leaves tinged with purple when 
they first unfold, and bright, clear pink, semidouble flowers drooping 
on long stalks, and minute fruits. This is probably a Chinese plant 
which has long been cultivated in Japanese gardens but is not now 
known in a wild state. It reached America sixty years ago and was 
first cultivated in this country by the historian Francis Parkman in his 
garden on the shores of Jamaica Pond. Seedlings of this plant show 
great variation. 
Japanese species which deserve the attention of lovers of hardy 
plants are M. zumi from Japan, with pink and white flowers, 
and M. Sargentii , a native of the borders of salt marshes in the north- 
ern island, and the only shrub Apple which is now known. In the 
Arboretum it has proved a valuable late-flowering plant; and it appears 
particularly well suited for northern gardens for on the coast of Maine 
it grows even better than it does here. The last of the eastern Asiatic 
species to flower is M. toringo, from northern China and Japan. This 
is a small tree with spreading branches, numerous, very small flowers, 
and minute, red or yellow fruits. A low, shrubby seedling form of this 
species has appeared in the Arboretum. 
The American Crabapples bloom later than the Asiatic and European 
species. There is one species (M. fusca) on the northwest coast and 
several in the Atlantic states from New York, Michigan and Iowa 
southward. In the group on the Forest Hills Road and nearly opposite 
the end of the Meadow Road M. fusca is well established. With it 
there is an interesting hybrid of this and the common Apple-tree named 
M. Dawsoniana. This is a vigorous tree with the peculiar oblong yel- 
low fruit of its American parent. The fruits, however, are much lar- 
ger and the leaves resemble those of the common Apple. M. corona- 
ria from the eastern states and M. ioensis from the central west are 
in this group, and there are plants of M. angustifolia from the extreme 
southeastern states now well established on Hickory Path near Centre 
Street. Of M. ioensis there are two plants opposite the end of the 
