. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 164 The American Florist. Eeb. i6y. discovered growing in a marsh at Hok- kaido, near Mororan, Japan, in 1892, by Prof. C. S. Sargent and introduced by him to the Arnold Arboretum. Al- though seemingly growing in swampy conditions in a natural state it appears to be quite happy in a dryish slope in the Arnold Arboretum, where the writer has seen it full of handsome fruit. P. M. Zumi is another comparatively new species, and has pinkish-white um- bels of very showy blossoms, produced in great abundance, followed by
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 164 The American Florist. Eeb. i6y. discovered growing in a marsh at Hok- kaido, near Mororan, Japan, in 1892, by Prof. C. S. Sargent and introduced by him to the Arnold Arboretum. Al- though seemingly growing in swampy conditions in a natural state it appears to be quite happy in a dryish slope in the Arnold Arboretum, where the writer has seen it full of handsome fruit. P. M. Zumi is another comparatively new species, and has pinkish-white um- bels of very showy blossoms, produced in great abundance, followed by showy, small red, apples in September. In the Arnold Arboretum this forms a neat small tree and is regarded by Prof. Sar- gent as one of the handsomest of the crabs. It was found growing in Fuku- shima, Hondo, Japan, in 1892 by Prof. Sargent; and introduced by him to the Arnold Arboretum. P. M. Niedwetzkyana, from Siberia, has been a disappointment to us as from what we had heard about it we had great expectations from it. It is of a very thin, sprawling habit and produces, very sparingly with us, rather pretty dark red blossoms. It has oblong, red fruit about as large as some of our orchard apples and curiously streaked with red all through the pulp. The young branches are purple red, and the wood when cut shows markedly red streaks all through it. John Dunbar. haps shown the most magnificent collec- tion of roses, almost every class, ever staged in this country. At that meeting Mr. Sander, of St. Albans, England, remarked in his address, "If the exhibition 1 see here could be trans- THE ROSE. Work of the American Rose Society. A paper written by John Cook, of Baltimore. Md., and read at the meet- ing of ihc Florists' Club of Washing- ton. D. C. February 5, 1907. President Bisset and Secretary Mc- Cauley have done nu the hor,or of ex- tending an invitat'on to attend vour meeting to-night to say something in re- gard to the Anic: i^:an Rose Society and the join
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