THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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old specimen of tliis tree in front of the gardener’s 
house in the Harvard Botanic Garden at Cambridge. 
In the Arboretum a number of forms of this species 
have been raised. They are distinguished from the 
Siberian tree by larger pure white flowers and larger 
fruits than those of M. baccata. Some of these forms 
are among the most beautiful of the early flowering 
Crabapples. 
Mains spectabilis from northern China is a tall shrub 
or small tree with erect, slightly spreading stems, 
large pink flowers which in the cultivated plants are 
more or less double, and medium-sized yellow fruits. 
This is an old inhabitant of gardens where several 
forms have appeared. The handson^est of these is 
known as the Rivers Crab (.1/. spectabilis Riversli) 
from the English nurseryman by whom it was raised 
or distributed. The Parkman Crab (If. Halliana) 
owes its name to the fact that it was first cultivated 
outside of Japan by Francis Parkman, the historian, 
who received it from there in 1860. It is a small and 
not very vigorous tree with dark bark and bright, 
clear pink, semidouble flowers drooping on long, slen¬ 
der stalks. This is a Chinese plant now only known 
in gardens and long cultivated in those of Japan. It 
should be in a list of the four or five most beautiful 
Crabapples. Another handsome plant in this group 
is Mains Scheidcckeri which is supposed to be a hybrid 
between If. floribunda and I/, prunifolia. It is vigor¬ 
ous and fast-growing, with erect stems which form a 
narrow head, pink and white flowers and light yellow 
fruits. 
Interesting species now well established at the Ar¬ 
boretum are Mains zmni from Japan, with pink and 
white flowers, I/, toringo from northern China and Ja¬ 
pan, and If. Sargentii from Japan. The two last 
flower late, have small flowers in crowded clusters 
and are distinguished by the tliree-lobed leaves on 
the shoots of the year. Unlike all other Crabapples, 
I/. Sargentii is a low shrub growing naturally on the 
borders of salt marshes. 
The so-called Siberian Crabapples of pomologists 
are trees of much ornamental value and are well 
worth cultivating for the beauty of their flowers and 
fruits; they are fast-growing trees with straight 
stems and pyramidal heads, large white flowers, and 
brilliant, often translucent, red or yellow, long- hang¬ 
ing fruits. The fruit is used in preserves and jellies, 
and for their fruits these trees are much 
grown in regions too cold for the suc¬ 
cessful cultivation of the common Apple. 
One of the most curious Apple-trees in the 
collection, If. Niedzicetzkyana, has deep purplish red 
flowers and fruit, even the flesh being purple, purple 
leaves at least early in the season and dark bark. It 
comes from central Asia and is probably a form of 
I/, pumila, one of the parents of the common Apple- 
tree, as seedlings raised in the Arboretum have some¬ 
times purple but more often green leaves. 
The Apple of the northwest coast (.1/. fusca or rir- 
ularis), with its distinct oblong fruits, can be seen in 
the group on the Forest Hills Road and with it a hy¬ 
brid of this species and the common Apple, which 
has been named I/. Dawsoniana. The Crabapples of 
eastern North America bloom later than the Old 
World species. They all have large, pink, fragrant 
flowers, and fragrant, green or yellowish fruit char¬ 
acterized by the sticky exudation with which it is 
covered. There are large plants of .1/. coronaria and 
If. ioensis, the two common eastern species, in the 
Forest Hills group opposite the end of the Meadow 
Road. There are large plants of the southern M. 
angustifolia on Hickory Path opposite the large group 
of Pterocaryas; and in the Peter’s Hill group can be 
seen flowering plants of I/, glaucescens , a species re¬ 
cently distinguished in western New York and now 
known to range along the Appalachian Mountains to 
North Carolina. The last of the Crabapples to flow¬ 
er is the double-flowered form of If. ioensis, known as 
the Bechtel Crab. This tree has double pale pink 
flowers which look like small clustered Roses, and at¬ 
tract so much attention that the ground around the 
trees is trodden hard every day by visitors who wish 
to examine them at close range. There are two trees 
of the Bechtel Crab opposite the end of the Meadow 
Road. 
FARMER’S WEEK AT NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J. 
Springfield, N. .1. 
January 2nd was Nurserymen’s day in the Farmer’s 
week meet held at New Brunswick, N. J., at the State 
college. Only a small number of the firms in the state 
were represented. This was undoubtedly due partially 
to the unfavorable weather conditions and the date of the 
meeting. 
The meeting was promoted by the state inspectors to 
further co-operation and good fellowship. I might add 
here that it will be remembered that during the early 
days of the inspectors, when the State Entomologist was 
first on the “Warpath,” of the San Jose Seale, he was 
considered by many as an enemy of the nurserymen, 
whose sole purpose was to find scale in our nurseries in 
order to withhold our certificate. 
It is gratifying to note that this idea is a thing of the 
past. Instead we welcome the “Bug Man, as our best 
friend. 
We have found that lu 1 is only too glad to help us in 
combating disease and insect pests that are so disastrous 
to nursery stock. Further than this, the State 
Entomologist and Pathologist have made it possible foi 
the nurserymen in the state of New Jersey to get peach 
bud stock from the test orchards. This bud stock is from 
pedigreed trees absolutely tree from yellows and 1 it11** 
peach. 
The meeting resulted in the appointment of a com¬ 
mittee bv the presiding chairman Prof. T. J. Headlei, 
with the intent of forming a state board of nurserymen. 
Wm. Flemer. Jr. 
