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Oriental Flowering Trees and Shrubs 
planted close to a path or in a small garden. Each hud is like a rose bud, 
each bloom a full-blown rose. It blooms latest. 
IMalus Micromalus. The habit of this plant is strictly upright and more 
pyramidal than any of the other flowering crabs. The flowers are of a deep, 
delicate rose-pink; the fruit is light yellow, and very often reddish-brown in 
color on one side. It is usually one of the first ornamental crabs to come 
into bloom. With its smooth, pale, grayish black bark and its attractive 
newness, it is considered one of the best of the Flowering Crabs, and is 
quite rare. The distinct tendency is to send up extremely long branches 
without sizable side shoots. 
Malus Niedzwetzkyana is an apple variety with purple fruit and red 
flowers. The leaves, stem, sap, bark, buds and all, are red or purple, the 
apples being red throughout, good to eat, and of fair size. The tree blooms 
when two or three years old, but not until it has reached the age of ten 
years does it produce abundantly. It is an interesting variety which is 
entitled to a place in all collections and should be planted where there is 
A/(i/(ts Atrosangiiinca Illustrating its habit when left to its own devices. 
Narl yrook Park, Narherth, Pa. 
