FLOWERING TREES 
Whether your garden be large or small there is always a place 
for flowering trees. They can be grown with equal satisfaction 
either as individual specimens on the lawn or grouped among 
the shrubs. 
Since few if any of these trees tower to great heights, even 
in maturity, they are indispensable for creating intimate garden 
picmres. In the spring, wrapped in a haze of soft bloom, they 
serve to lift the color of perennial borders to eye level and above. 
In the fall, hawthorns, mountain ash, and flowering crabapples 
are brilliant with fruit and doubly effective when combined with 
red chokeberries, gray dogwoods and hardy asters. 
MALUS (Flowering Crabapple) 
For the middle west there is no finer, hardier flowering tree 
than the crabapple. Many varieties exist, each varying some' 
what in shade of bloom and habit of growth. Try pink'flowered 
types with pale lilac tulips and white arabis. 
MALUS ASTROSANGUINEA (Carmine Crabapple) 
Twigs covered in May with brilliant, unfading, carmine blos' 
soms. Fruits red. Wide'spreading branches. Eventual height 
twenty feet or more. 
MALUS BACCATA MANDSHURICA (Siberian Crabapple) 
This is the fragrant variety of the Siberian crabapple. A round 
headed tree that grows to thirty feet. Flowers white. Fruits red 
or yellow. 
MALUS CORONARIA (Wild Sweet Crabapple) 
In maturity a stiff'branched, thirty foot tree. Flowers rose fad' 
ing white and fragrant. A native variety invaluable for naturalis' 
tic plantings. 
MALUS ARNOLDIANA 
Develops into a magnificent 
specimen about fifteen feet 
high. A hybrid from the Ar' 
nold Arboretum. Flowers pink 
fading white. Fruits yellow in 
clusters. 
Bechtel’s Crab 
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