CHAP. XLir. Rosx'CEJE, crat.e'gus. 817 



It C. c. 2 coraUina. C. corallina Lodd. Cat. ; the C. pyriformis of some col- 

 lections. {Jig. 5G5. in p. S52.] — The leaves, and the entire plant, are, 

 perhaps, rather smaller than in the species ; the habit of" tiie tree is 

 decidedly more upright and fastigiate ; and the fruit is smaller, long, 

 and of a fine coral red; whence the name is probably derived, 

 though, in the first edition of the Horticultural Society's Catalogue, 

 it is called the red-branched hawthorn. The plants at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's, however, exhibit only a slight degree of redness in the 

 branches of the young wood. 



t C.c. 3 imlentdta. 'C. indentataLoA/. Cat. {fg. 566. in p. 852.)— The 

 leaves are smaller, and less lobed, than those of the species; the 

 the plant is, also, weaker, of upright habit, and with a smooth clear 

 bark. 



¥ C. c. l maxima Lodd. Cat. C. c. spinosa Godefroy ; C. ? flabellata 

 Hurt. — The leaves are larger than those of any other variety; and 

 the fruit is also large. As we have not seen living plants of C. flabel- 

 lata, but only dried specimens sent from Terenure and the Hum- 

 beque Nursery, we are not absolutely certain that C. flabellata and 

 C. c. maxima are the same ; but we feel quite certain that they both 

 belong to C, c. coccinea. We are informed that the C. flabellata of 

 some nurseries is C. tanacetifolia ; which certainly has its leaves 

 more flabellate, or fan-like, than any variety of C. coccinea. 



Statistics. The general rate of growth of C. coccinea, in the environs of London, is 10 ft. in 5 

 years, or 20 ft. in 10 years. There are old trees, between 20 ft. and 30 ft. high, at Syon, at Purser's 

 Cross.Jat Kew, and at Ham House. In Kensington Gardens, a little to the right of the north 

 entrance, there is a tree 20 ft. high, with diameter of the head SO ft., and of the trunk Uin. In 

 Gloucestershire, at Doddington, 30 years planted, the tree is 20 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 being 16 in., and of the head 20 ft. In Lancashire, at Latham House, 14 years planted, it is 19 ft 

 high. In Worcestershire, at Croome, 25 years planted, it is 23ft. high; at Hagley, 12 years planted, 

 and 20 ft. high. At Yorkshire, at Grimston, 14 years planted, and 25 ft. high. In Scotland, in 

 Koss-shire, at Brahan Castle, 26 ft. high. In Ireland, in the neighbourhood of Dublin, at Tere- 

 nure, 25 ft. high ; and at Oriel Temple, 23 ft. high. In France, in the Jardin des Plantes, it 

 is 30ft high; at Nantes, in the nursery of M. De Nerriferes, 20ft. high. In Saxony, at Wor- 

 litz, 56 years planted, and 30 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic Gar- 

 den, 20 ft. high. In Prussia, in the Pfauen Insel, £0 years planted, and 10 ft. high. In Bavaria, 

 at Munich, in the Botanic Garden, 24 years planted, and 20 ft. high. In Hanover, at Gottingen, 

 in the Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, and 16 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 24 years planted, 

 and 20 ft. high. 



'i 2. C. GLAXDiLo'sA W. The glandular Thorn. 



Identification. Willd. Sp., 2. p. 1002., not of Michx. ; Pursh Amor. Sept., 1. p. 337. ; Dec. Prod, 2. 



p. 627. ; Don's Mill., 2 p. 599. 

 Synonymes. ? C. sanguinea Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t 11.; ? jVespilus rotundif&lia Ehrh. Bcitr., S. p. 20. ; 



Pyxui glanduibsa ita-nch ; C. rotundif51ia Booth. 

 Engravings. ?Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 11.; Lod. Bot. Cab., t. 1012.; Dend. Brit., t. 58.; our fig. 5^. 



in p. 853. ; and the plate of this species in our Second Volume. 



Sj^ec. Char., ^-c. Leaves with the disk obovate-wedge-shaped, angled, glabrous, 

 glossy. Petioles, stipules, and sepals glanded. Fruit oval, scarlet ; nuts 

 4 — 5 ; flesh hard and dry. {Dec. Prod., ii. p. 627.) A tree, a native of 

 North America, in Canada and on the Alleghany Mountains, and also 

 found on the Rocky Mountains. It was introduced into England in 1750, 

 and forms a low, compact, bushy-headed tree, seldom exceeding 1 2 ft. or 

 15 ft. in height. It differs from the preceding sort in the stipules and 

 calyxes being glandular, and in the head of the tree forming a dense mass 

 of small twigs. This last circumstance, taken together with the size of the 

 leaves and fruit, induces us to think that it may be only a stunted variety 

 of C. coccinea. This might be tested by sowing its seeds, which are ripened 

 about the same time as those of C. coccinea,and observing what kind of plants 

 were produced. If several of these turned out to be C. coccinea, our con- 

 jecture would be confirmed. This sort of Cratae^gus being a small compact 

 tree, of rather a fastigiate habit, and of comparatively slow growth, and yet 

 being very prolific in its flowers and fruit, is well adapted for small gardens ; 

 and, if it comes true from seed, it would form the next best hedge plant to 

 C. Oxyacantha. There are specimens of this tree at White Knights, which, 

 in 25 years, have attained tlie height of 14 ft.; and at Croome, which, in 30 

 vears, have attained the height of 25 ft. 



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