826 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ill. 
although bright red, does not make much show upon the branches. The 
sides of the stones of the fruit are unusually thin for a Cratee‘gus. (Bot. 
Reg., t. 1846.) Dr. Lindley adds that Elliott confounds this species with 
the C. spathulata of Michaux and Pursh; which, as described by these 
authors, he thinks must be a different species, in the way of C. parvifolia, 
and allied to the C. virginiana of the English nurseries. We can only re- 
peat the hope we have so often expressed, that, ere long, all the species 
of Cratzgus will be brought together in one garden, so as to be studied, by 
botanists, in a living state. C. spathulata is a beautiful little species, which 
well deserves a place in every collection; and, being of slow growth, it is 
particularly eligible for suburban gardens. 
§x. Azaroli. 
Sect. Char. Fruit large, round or pear-shaped; good to eat; yellowor red; 
the yellow fruit generally produced on fastigiate species or varieties; and 
the red on trees with a spreading and rather a drooping head. Leaves 
wedge-shaped, 3-cleft or more, shining, pubescent or hairy. Spines few 
or none. 
¥ 18. C. Azano‘Lus L. The Azarole Thorn. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 683.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 600. 
Synonymes. Pyrus Azardlus Scop. Carn., No. 597., J. Bauh. Hist., 1. p. 67.; Méspilus Azardlus 
All. Ped., N. Du Ham., 4. p. 158.; Néflier Azarole, Néflier de Naples, E’pine d’Espagne, Pom- 
mettes 4 deux Closes, #y.; Azarol Mispel, Ger. 
Engravings. N. Du Ham., 4. t.42.; Bot. Rep., t. 579. ; fig. 592. in p.862.; and the plate in our 
Second Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves pubescent, wedge-shaped at the base, trifid ; lobes 
blunt, and with a few large teeth. Branchlets, corymbs, and calyxes 
pubescent. Sepals obtuse. Styles 1—3. Fruit globose, scarlet. Seeds 
usually two; and hence the name, common at Montpelier, pommettes @ 
deux closes. (Dec. Prod., ii. p.629.) Native in small woods, and in rough 
places, in the south of France and in Italy. This species is decidedly a 
tree; never being found, in a wild state, with numerous distinct stems 
rising from the same root, like the common hawthorn; but always with a 
trunk more or less clothed with branches, to within 3 ft. or 4 ft. of the 
ground. The head is round and spreading; the branches rambling; the 
small shoots thick, and covered with a dark-coloured bark, frequently 
spiny when the plant is young, but spineless as it grows old. The flowers 
are produced in corymbs towards the extremities of the shoots: they are 
middle-sized ; and are succeeded by fruit, round, and somewhat oval ; 
varying exceedingly in dimensions, in plants! raised from seeds, and also 
in colour, but most generally yellowish red. The fruit, when ripe, is mealy, 
and somewhat acid ; and, in Italy and the Levant, it is occasionally sent 
to table. The tree, like almost every other of the species of Cratz‘gus, 
is of great durability. Du Hamel mentions a plant, living in his time, in 
the Jardin du Val, that was sent to Louis XIV. from Spain; from which 
circumstance it was afterwards called, in France, épine d’ Espagne. It was 
cultivated in England, by Tradescant, in 1656; and is recommended by 
Parkinson, London and Wise, and other old writers on gardening, to be 
cultivated for its fruit. Notwithstanding this circumstance, old trees are 
rarely to be met with in British Gardens; and the oldest plant that we 
know of, in the neighbourhood of London, is in the Fulham Nursery; 
where, however, it is not above 20ft. high, but fruits abundantly every 
other year. 
Varieties. Inthe Nouveau Du Hamel, six varieties are enumerated, viz.: 1. 
Meéspilus Aronia, with the leaves hairy beneath; 2. Azarole, with large deep 
red fruit ; 3. Azarole, with yellowish white fruit ; 4. Azarole, with long fruit, 
of a whitish yellow; 5. Azarole, with double flowers; and, 6. the White 
Azarole of Italy. With the exception of the first-mentioned, none of 
these varieties, as far as we know, are in British gardens. 
