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long as or slightly longer than the longest stamens. The calyx is broadly campanulate, 6 Ă— 56 mm, with a faint purple tinge; there is a distinct transition from pedicel to calyx. Sepals are a little narrower at the base, but not as distinctly as with 'Hokusai'; 69 Ă— 45 mm, occasional serration at the edge, and with a faint purple tinge. Flowering season is midApril in Tokyo. 'Yae-murasaki-zakura' 'Yae-murasaki-zakura' ("double purple cherry") was selected by Manabu Miyoshi from among seedlings of 'Murasaki-zakura' ("purple cherry") with which he was experimenting in the Cherry Garden of the Botanical Gardens of the Tokyo University at the beginning of the twentieth century. Miyoshi named his discovery Prunus serrulata f. purpurea (subf. plena). One often finds it as P. lannesiana 'Purpurea-plena'. Its female parent, 'Murasaki-zakura', is in cultivation and resembles 'Choshu-hizakura' and other cherries related to the Japanese mountain cherry. 'Yae-murasaki-zakura' is a nice cultivar, and if any cherry should be brought into prominence among those that are unjustly only seen in spe-
Figure 184 'Yae-murasaki-zakura' makes a low, spreading tree. Photo by Arie Peterse, 11 May 1986, Hemelrijk, Belgium.