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Wednesday evenings the Arboretum offers these little walking tours of whatever is in bloom. This week it was the crabapples with Prof Hasselkus (Emeritus) who has the most encyclopedic knowledge of every cultivated variety of landscape plant, and crabapples are one of his specialties. Several dozen people showed up to follow him around, at one of the major horticultural collections in the world. It was a lovely evening again for a little walk, and I learned more than I need to know about different flowering crabs, white and pink and red, Japanese and native, rootstock and habits and new varieties. Also ornamental pears and birch and redbud. The lilac collection will be coming along next week.