ALLARD: CRATAEGUS AT THoMpson’s MILLs, Ga. 27 
was still retained. This Crataegus fruits abundantly in enriched 
soils, but is oftentimes quite barren on sterile, rocky hillsides. 
It is a common pasture species on the plantation of the J. N. 
Thompson Co., and is the favorite nesting.site of the mocking 
bird in this region. 
CRATAEGUS SPATHULATA Michx. This is a very common 
species in various situations at Thompson’s Mills. It occurs in 
Uppermost row, leaves of Crataegus spathulata; middle row, C. 
FIGURE 2, 
Beadlei: | lowest row, C. collina; about two thirds natural size 
deep, rich clay soils abundantly supplied with moisture and also 
in thin dry soils barely covering ledges of rocks. In the former 
situation it may become a much branched, graceful, showy tree 
20 to 25 feet in height. In the latter, it assumes a low, fantastic, 
broad-headed, gnarled, and irregular habit of growth. In some 
situations this thorn forms almost impenetrable thickets. In the 
open, the stiff, tortuous branches sometimes grow in well defined, 
