To enhance the beauty of Parks, Cemeteries, 
Estates, or smaller gardens, no shrubs are more 
desirable than the Flowering Crabs. They are 
not only rivals of the Flowering Cherries, so much 
praised at flowering time, but surpass them in 
many ways. 
Flowering Crabs are more suitable to northern 
gardens than Flowering Cherries. They are more 
hardy but are simply less talked about because 
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they are less known. 
Flowering Crabs produce in the spring an 
abundance of dainty flowers in many shades, the 
flowers of some varieties being delightfully fra¬ 
grant. 
In late summer and fall, Flowering Crabs bear 
ornamental fruit very freely—yellow, red, purple, 
according to variety, while during the summer 
dense foliage, strongly disease resistant, adorns 
the shrubs. 
In winter, Flowering Crabs are interesting be¬ 
cause of their picturesque branch-structure. Plant¬ 
ed in groups, or as single specimens, or bordering 
a woodland, they create an unforgettable picture. 
The short description which follows can give 
only an inadequate picture of the beauty of Flow¬ 
ering Crabs. 
Arnoldiana 
The flowers, pink, single or semi-double, are 
produced in clusters on red stems. The fruit, twice 
the size of a pea, is yellow and orange. 
Bechtels Crab 
The flowers are rosy pink, resembling small 
clustered roses and appear in great abundance. 
It is the latest flowering of all varieties. 
The bright purplish red flowers are born in 
clusters like apple blossoms, they literally cover 
the branches. The foliage comes out purple brown, 
like Prunus Pissardb and later turns to a slight¬ 
ly purplish green. No variety surpasses Eleyi in 
size, color and abundance of fruit which changes 
from french purple to purple brown. The fruit 
remains on the branches almost as long as the 
foliage. Each branch is a picture in Spring as 
well as in Autumn. 
