OREGON CRABAPPLE (_Malus rivularis_) grows wild from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, southward to central California, and is of largest size in Washington and Oregon where trees are occasionally forty feet high and eighteen inches in diameter, but they are generally about ten feet high and form dense thickets. The fruit is oblong, ripens late in autumn, is greenish, or reddish, or clear lemon yellow in color, and rather pleasant to the taste. The tree grows slowly, the wood is hard, and light reddish-brown in color, and is suitable for tool handles. IOWA CRAB (_Malus ioensis_) grows from Minnesota to Texas and is the common crabapple of the Mississippi basin. Large trees are twenty-five feet high and a foot in diameter. It is believed that this tree crosses with the common apple, and produces a variety known as the soulard apple (_Malus soulardi_). Wild apple (_Malus malus_) is a European species introduced into this country and now running wild. MOUNTAIN ASH (_Pyrus americana_) is closely related to the crabs. It occurs from Newfoundland to Manitoba, and southward along the mountains to North Carolina. Trees have compound leaves, red berries the size of small cherries, and reach a height of thirty feet and a diameter of a foot or more. There are several forms or varieties, among them the small fruit mountain ash (_Pyrus americana microcarpa_) of the Alleghany mountains. [Illustration] RED HAW [Illustration: RED HAW] RED HAW (_Cratægus Coccinea_)