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covered with the uninjured leaves of last year and flat clusters of white 
flowers. These are less interesting than the leaves which are six or 
seven inches long, pointed, dark green, deeply wrinkled above and cov- 
ered below with a thick coat of pale brown or nearly white felt. The 
fruit, which is red, has not yet been produced in the Arboretum. 
Viburnum ichangense, which first flowered in the Arboretum in 1916, 
has not before been as full of flowers as it is this spring. It is a 
native of central China where it is a shrub sometimes ten feet high 
with small, narrow, pointed leaves and small clusters of slightly fra- 
grant flov/ers followed by black fruits. As it grows in the collection of 
Chinese plants on Bussey Hill it is a narrow, almost pyramidal shrub 
six feet tall, with slender, erect stems, clothed to the ground with lat- 
eral branchlets which are covered with leaves and flower-clusters. In 
habit unlike other Viburnums in the collection, the Ichang species is an 
attractive plant which promises to be useful for northern gardens. 
The last of the Asiatic Crabapples are two still little known and re- 
lated species from western China, Maius toringoides and Malvs tran- 
sitoria, which are now in flower on the southern slope of Bussey Hill, 
the latter for the first time in the Arboretum. Mains torivgoides is a 
small tree with gracefully drooping branches which form a broad head, 
deeply lobed, pointed, dark green leaves, white flowers and small, pear- 
shaped, red fruits. It was discovered by Wilson in western Szechuen 
near the Thibetan border, and is a perfectly hardy, handsome tree 
which in its native country sometimes 'attains the height of thirty feet. 
Maius transitoria, found by Purdom in Shensi, is, as it has grown in 
the Arboretum, a densely branched shrub rather than a tree, with 
smaller leaves and flowers than those of M. toringoides. 
A few American Crabapples. All the species of eastern North Amer- 
ica have large pale pink or rose-colored, fragrant flowers which do not 
open until the leaves are partly grown, and green, fragrant fruits cov- 
ered with a waxy exudation peculiar to them. Several species have 
been distinguished in recent years; they are all now in the collection 
but several of them are still too small to flower. Mains gla.ucescens, 
noticed first in the vicinity of Rochester, New York, best distinguished 
by the pale under surface of the leaves is the first of these trees to 
flower. Maius platycarpa from the southern Appalachian Mountains, 
with larger fruit than that of the other species, is in bloom opposite 
the upper end of the Meadow Road, in the old Crabapple Collection, 
and near it are large specimens of Maius ioensis, the common Crab- 
apple of the middle west. With it is growing the Bechtel Crab, (var. 
plena), its variety with double rose-colored flowers which look like 
small Roses. There are large plants of the Bechtel Crab also in the 
Peter’s Hill Group. The trees are now in bloom, and, judging by the 
number of persons who stop to examine and adm.ire them, they are the 
most popular plants in the Arboretum. The Bechtel Crab is now found 
in many American nurseries. 
