The Tea Crab “is the quintessence of Crabapple loveliness.” 
E. H. Wilson. 
FLOWERING APPLES — CHINESE, JAPANESE 
AND NATIVE 
One of the favorites—Japanese Flowering Crab (Malus floribnnda). Flower¬ 
ing in the Rochester Parks. Photograph by E. J. Horsey, Dept, of Parks, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
The American public have not had ample opportunity to behold the beauty 
of flowering apples. There are Native, Japanese and Chinese types and the 
Chinese and Japanese flora are particularly well adapted to Eastern America. 
Some of the Chinese Flowering Crabs are even more gorgeous in bloom than 
the cherries for which Japan is so famous. 
E. H. (Chinese) Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum, Cambridge, Mass., writing 
in “House and Garden” stated that “the crabapples are not exceeded in beauty 
and hardiness by any tribe of plants.” “There should be no garden, even a 
surburban garden without its crabapple tree.” At the Arnold Arboretum in 
Boston and the Parks at Rochester, N. Y., one of the important events of 
the year is the blooming of the crabs. 
The plants vary in height, some are bushes as Sargent’s Crab and the 
Tea Crab and may be used on a rockery or in a small garden. Others with 
their glossy foliage as the Carmine Crab (Malus Atrosanguinea) make a won¬ 
derful hedge plant, rivaling privet. Some may be planted in borders, others 
are suitable for enlivening forest parks and country roadsides and boulevards. 
They make an excellent background for the flower garden and all may be 
used as specimens, and when so used give ample space. 
Flowering Crabs have a three-fold value, beautiful bloom in spring, at¬ 
tractive fruit in autumn and winter—yellow, red, purple and green in color; 
some excellent for jelly and all valuable as food for birds. 
Plant Fraser’s Flowering Cherries for charm. 
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