Frillylily said:no it continued to do poorly and I replaced it w an amur Maple and it has doubled in size already, only been there 2 years now. The Harvest Gold crab apples are still doing well. I planted 2 Cleveland pears in the back yard and now they are infected with something similar and I suspect from the cedars as well 
Thank you for replying. So sorry to hear that possibly cedar-apple rust is continuing to cause a problem for your crabapples. 😕I, too, have cedars but mine are the Eastern White cedar. Morton Arboretum discusses Eastern Red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) as one of the necessary hosts...
Best wishes
https://www.mortonarb.org/tree...
This is the excerpt: " Cedar-apple rust
There are several cedar-rust diseases that spend part of their life cycle on Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) and other junipers, and another part of their life cycle on apple, hawthorn, and other members of the rose family. Both hosts are required for the fungus to complete its life cycle. The three most common rusts occurring in Illinois are caused by Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae (cedar-apple rust), G. globosum (cedar-hawthorn rust), and G. clavipes (cedar-quince rust)."
Adding another resource for anyone interested in common leaf diseases of crabapples.
https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/...
