Sunset™ Buckeye	Ball O' Fire™ Musclewood	J.N. Strain of Musclewood
Aesculus glabra ‘J.N. Select'	Carpinus caroliniana 'J.N. Globe'	Carpinus caroliniana 'J.N. Strain'
Firespire™ Musclewood	Birdland Crabapple	Firebird® Crabapple
Carpinus caroliniana 'J.N. Upright'	Malus ‘Birdland’	Malus sargentii ‘Select A’ P.P. 12621

Sunset™ Buckeye - Aesculus glabra 'Sunset'

Zone: 3 H: 35' S: 35'
Sunset™ Buckeye is a seedling selection found by Michael Yanny in 1981. The original tree, at about 30 years old, is approximately 30’ tall by 20’ wide. Sunset™ Buckeye gets its name from its bright red fall color. Its form and growth rate seem to be similar to Aesculus glabra seedlings, though it does show better late season foliage quality. Sunset™ Buckeye produces very few seeds giving it great potential as a street tree. The reason for the near seedless nature of the tree is that the pistils do not elongate enough to be easily pollinated.We have successfully propagated this clone by side-veneer grafts on potted Aesculus glabra in July under mist. Sunset™ Buckeye should be further evaluated for scorch and blotch resistance, hardiness and fall color consistency. Ease of production in the nursery should also be looked at.
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Ball O' Fire™ Musclewood - Carpinus caroliniana 'J.N. Globe'

Zone: 3 H: 15' S: 15'
A compact, globe formed tree with excellent orange-red fall color. The cultivar originated from a seedling selected from the wild in Waukesha County, WI. An excellent specimen plant.
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J.N. Strain of Musclewood - Carpinus caroliniana 'J.N. Strain'

Zone: 3 H: 30' S: 30'
Fantastic, small-scale tree with a dense canopy. Improved fall color on our Wisconsin strain is mostly orange-red, some will be yellow. Its leaf and bark characteristics resemble a small beech tree with fall color. NOT hard to transplant.
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Firespire™ Musclewood - Carpinus caroliniana 'J.N. Upright'

Zone: 3 H: 20' S: 10'
An upright form with outstanding orange-red fall color. Quite similar in scale and form to Cornus mas 'Golden Glory'. A very useful screening plant, because of its slender form and tolerance for both sun and shade.
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Birdland Crabapple - Malus 'Birdland'

Zone: 4 H: 25’ S: 30’
Large, mounded form. Very uniform shape. The best ornamental crabapple that we have seen for attracting birds. Virtually a self-filling bird feeder with the birds eating the tiny, orange fruits from November through March.
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Firebird® Crabapple - Malus sargentii ‘Select A’ P.P. 12621

Zone: 4 H: 7' S: 9'
Firebird® Crabapple originated from open-pollinated seed collected in 1980 by Michael Yanny at Johnson’s Nursery, Inc., Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. A seedling crop was grown and transplanted to the Jackson, WI farm in 1984. From this block of plants, trees were evaluated primarily for fruiting qualities, habit, disease resistance and hardiness. Firebird® Crabapple showed superior fruiting qualities early on in the selection process. It has small, red crabapples slightly less than ½” in diameter. Unlike most Malus sargentii selections which have small, red fruits which quickly soften in the autumn after a few hard frosts and are taken by birds, Firebird® Crabapple fruit remain hard and colorful late into the winter. It’s ornamental fruit quality and persistence is better or equal to that of Malus ‘Donald Wyman’ and approaching but not equal to Malus ‘Red Jewel’, in Wisconsin. Firebird® Crabapple is a small-scale plant similar to its parent Malus sargentii, though a more compact version. It grows more upright than the species when young eventually spreading out to 8’ wide by 5’ tall after about 18 years. Firebird® Crabapple shows much more of a tendency towards annual flowering and fruiting than its parent. Red flower buds open to sweet smelling, one-inch diameter, snow-white flowers at the time when Viburnum carlesii is in full bloom. On young, vigorous shoots, Firebird® Crabapple has distinct, tri-lobed leaves 2 3/8” long by 2” wide with a prominent central lobe. Older, more adult foliage, most prevalent on slower growing shoots, is mostly elliptic, oval being about 2 ½” long by 1 ¼” wide. Firebird® Crabapple has excellent resistance to apple scab disease. Fireblight has not infected it. A growers license is required by law to propagate and sell this plant.
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Our nursery has been actively selecting new plant cultivars for the past 27 years. We are most interested in tough, durable plants that will perform well in heavy alkaline soils and survive our rugged climate. With the millions of plants that have passed through our nursery over the years we have found numerous improved plants. We hope you will try some of our new cultivars and see for yourself.

For information on plant trilling, testing agreements, trademark licensing agreements or patent licensing to propagate and sell these introductions, please call or email me if you have questions.
Ph: (262) 252-4980 Email: mike@johnsonsnursery.com

Thank You,
Michael Yanny
Plant Propagator