Tree: Crabapple
Latin name: Malus sp.
Pennsylvania German name: Hols Abbel
Location: Arboretum at F&M College
Above: Two crabapple trees on the Klauder-Apple Walk, F&M College campus. Steinman College Center is in the background.
Above: Historical marker near the crabapples. These crabapple trees are like a horticultural tribute to Dr. Apple, F&M College president from 1909 to 1934.
Crabapple trees described in
Plant Names and Plant Lore among the Pennsylvania Germans (1927)
By David Lick and Thomas Brendle:
Above: The Pennsylvania native crabapple.
Above: The introduced crabapple.
Above: The head of this book’s publication committee was Dr. B. F. Fackenthal, Jr.. He also was chairman of the F&M College Board during that time. The college’s Shadek-Fackenthal Library is named for him. The book was published by the Pennsylvania German Society. Dr. Fackenthal was president of that historical society in 1913. Records of the society are archived in F&M College’s special collections.
The book was printed in Lancaster by the Lancaster Press. That building today is the condo building named The Lancaster Press Building, on N. Duke St. and Lemon St.
Above: Crabapple tree on the Klauder-Apple Walk. Meyran Hall is in the background. The arboretum map does not identify the cultivar names of the campus crabapples.
Note: Lick and Brendle classified the native Pennsylvania crabapple as Pyrus coronaria. But this species has been reclassified and is now correctly named Malus coronaria in accordance with the latest taxonomic revision.
Links:
Caroline Steinman Nunan Arboretum at F&M College
Crabapple on the college’s arboretum page.
Map of the trees of this campus arboretum
Plant Names and Plant Lore… Full text on Internet Archive