The Garden Nurseries, Penn Valley, Narberth, Pa. 
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years. Later, finding it to be perfectly healtby and very effective in our 
South Jersey nursery, we began growing it again. The fruit is splendidly 
colored, a rich red inside and out, 
Malus Arnoldiana is of a similar habit and appears to be a cross of 
Floribunda or Atrosanguinea and Parkmani. Its habit of growth, its glossy 
foliage, and its small greenish fruit appear to have been inherited from one 
o f the first named, and the flowers from the latter. The pink, single or 
semi-double flowers grow abundantly in clusters on red, wire-like stems 
three inches long. 
Malus Atrosanguinea (Carmine Crab). The small, sin gle flo wers 
open immediately after the Japanese Weeping Cherry has blossomed, and 
like most other Crabs, the flowers are produced before the foliage. Their 
brilliant coloring is unsurpassed, yet for those who do not care for such 
brilliancy there is the compensation that the flowers fade gradually within 
two weeks to a lovely light pink, which characterizes the early bloom o f the 
old and popular Floribunda variety. The flowers are produced in multi¬ 
tudes. It appears that the tree is clothed in transparent silk gauze, pink and 
shimmering, changing in color value with the elevation o f the sun and the 
position of the observer in relation to the sunlight. When planted in groups 
or as single trees, the Atrosanguinea is very beautiful, but even more 
beautiful is the effect produced when it is used as a hedge plant. It may be 
treated almost like privet; that is, the outside branches may be sheared 
twice, in the Spring and early Summer, leaving the upright growth alone. 
As the foliage is held well into November and as it remains to the last a 
splendid glossy green having apparently no attraction to insects, it rivals 
the Privet as a hedge or screen. A height of twenty feet is readily attained 
when the tree is treated in the foregoing manner. When left to its own 
devices, where there is room enough, the tree becomes low spreading and 
extremely bushy. 
Malus Baccata is a fast and vigorous grower. The flowers are white and 
fragrant. The fruit is carried on fairly long stems and is usually yellow, The 
variety Baccata Ceracifera carries red cherry-like fruit that could readily 
be mistaken for red cherries inasmuch as they are the same size, same shape 
and color. Ceracifera is so much superior to Baccata that this variety is 
recommended. The fruit makes excellent jelly. 
Malus Coronarius Plena (Thomsi), a double form of our native crab, 
large, very double, fragrant, pink, rose-like flowers freely produced. Th is 
variety is very scarce^only a few trees available here, and probably none 
elsewhere. It is subject to cedar rust. 
