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Oriental Flowering Trees and Shrubs 
with Jeanne Wohlert, as both are of similar slow growth. As you will 
see from the picture, the flowers are arranged in bottle brush formation, 
somewhat like the hyacinth flowers. It is fragrant and delicately colored. 
Mikurumagaeshi Zakura is considered by the Japanese one of the love¬ 
liest of the flowering cherries. So lovely is it, that the name implies you will 
turn around and look back when you leave the tree. It is double flowering, 
light pink, slightly fragrant and exceedingly lovely not only because of the 
delicate coloring, but also because of the unusually attractive distribution 
of the flowers over the tree. The tree is decidedly spreading and the branches, 
which lack prominent side shoots, are covered from end to end with flowers 
resembling floral fishing poles. Twenty feet is probably the ultimate height 
of this variety, and it would form a very suitable companion with Paul 
Wohlert. 
Hosokawa-Beni is a fragrant, upright-growing variety, blush or pale pink 
flowers. The form of this tree, as seen in the illustration, is similar to the 
sugar maple. It is somewhat faster growing than most of the previously 
mentioned double-flowering varieties, but not so rapid a grower as the 
Weeping Cherry and most of the late-flowering varieties. Hosokawa-Beni 
may be considered as a mid-season sort as to period of bloom. 
Amanogawa. a new 
sort in America, but a 
well established old 
time sort in Japan. The 
name, translated liter¬ 
ally, means Heaven s 
River or Milky 
Way.” The branches 
are upright and the 
habit is columnar^—^on 
the order of the Lom¬ 
bardy Poplar. While 
the flowers of nearly 
all the other sorts are 
carried on long fl ower 
stems that drooj), the 
semi-double pink 
flowers of Amanogawa 
are held upright on 
rather stocky stems. 
J he llowers exhale a 
delightful, delicate 
