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Wilson has not seen it in Japanese gardens. It is a broad, round- 
topped, treelike shrub sometimes twenty-five feet tall with stout 
branches and slender arching and pendent branchlets. The clustered 
flowers are white when fully expanded, rose-red in the bud, and as 
they open in succession the two colors make a beautiful contrast. The 
fruit is about the size of a pea, yellowish or yellowish brown; from 
some plants it falls in the early autumn, on others it remains on the 
branches during the winter or until devoured by birds who are partic¬ 
ularly fond of it. Several plants with persistent fruit are growing 
close to the Administration Building in the Arboretum, and during the 
winter are filled with numerous species of birds, including pheasants 
who are fond of these Crabapples. A hybrid between M. fioribunda 
and perhaps M. cerasifera appeared in the Arboretum among a lot of 
seedlings of M. fioribunda in 1883 and has been named M. Arnoldiana. 
It has the habit and abundant flowers of M. fioribunda , but the flow¬ 
ers and fruit are nearly twice as large. It is a handsomer plant than 
M. fioribunda and one of the most beautiful of the Crabapples in the 
Arboretum. 
Malus Sieboldii is another of the species introduced from the gar¬ 
dens of Japan into Europe by Von Siebold in 1853. It is a low, dense 
shrub of spreading habit with the leaves on vigorous branchlets three- 
lobed, small flowers white tinged with rose in color, and small yellow 
fruits. A good specimen may be seen on the left hand side of the 
Forest Hills Road. Von Siebold’s Crab is really a dwarf form of a 
species common on the Korean Island of Quelpaert, and on the moun¬ 
tains of central Japan and Hokkaido, to which the name var. arbores- 
cens has been given. This is a tree often thirty feet or more tall, with 
ascending, wide-spreading branches, twiggy branchlets and minute fruit 
yellow on some and red on other individuals. Although the flowers 
are small, they are produced in immense quantities, and this species 
has the advantage of flowering later than the other Asiatic Crabapples. 
Another variety of Von Siebold’s Crab (var. calocarpa ), raised in the 
Arboretum from seed sent in 1890 from the Nikko mountains of Japan 
by Dr. W. Sturgis Bigelow of Boston, has bright red fruits each half 
an inch in diameter. When in fruit this is the handsomest of the Japan¬ 
ese Crabapples. 
Malus Sargentii from salt marshes in the neighborhood of Muroran 
in northern Japan, where it was discovered by Professor Sargent in 
1892, has qualities which give it a field of usefulness peculiarly its own. 
This species is a dwarf with rigid and spreading branches, the lower 
branches flat on the ground; it is well suited for covering slopes and 
banks. The flowers are in umbel-like clusters, saucer-shaped, round and 
of the purest white, and are followed by masses of wine-colored fruit 
which is covered by a slight bloom and unless eaten by birds remains 
on the plants well into the spring. 
Malus spectabilis, cultivated by the Chinese from time immemorial 
and introduced from Canton in 1780, was the first of the Asiatic Crab¬ 
apples cultivated in Europe. Like several other species it is not yet 
known in a wild state but is probably of hybrid origin. It is a tree 
