Ornamental Apples
A Garden Corner
APPLES have been a feature of garden decoration for very many years, mostly at first by the use of species Pyrus malus spectabilis from China, Seiboldti from Japan and the English wild crab. Then, by and bye, hybrids began to appear, and this present century has seen great advances made in the colouring of foliage, flower and fruit.
The predilection to-day is naturally for rich colour effects, and in some of the latest creations, such as Malus Eleryi and Gorgeous, we get that beautiful cerise display in the early spring that is so telling, while their ropes of bright scarlet miniature fruits in the autumn are no less effective. Contrasts are afforded by such varieties ‘as Sargenti, Montreal Beauty and Schedeckeri, with pinky white flowers and red and yellow fruits. There is an additional advantage in that their fruits are not so much affected by codlin moth, possibly by reason of theif smaller calyx opening. As trees for the front borders or for street planting, Pyrus malus is just about ideal. T. D. LENNIE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20282, 17 April 1934, Page 13
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