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call attention to its stout spikes, that sometimes 

 grow four inches in length, serving to identify it. 

 Of some half dozen native species of Thorn that 

 may be found in byways, the Red -fruited is perhaps 

 the most striking, both from its flowers and orna- 

 mental fruit, while the White Hawthorn or Eng- 

 lish May is to be seen in the Lonetown region 

 guarding gateless gaps in old stone walls, to- 

 gether with the Lilacs, telling the story of van- 

 ished homes. 



The foliage of the Hawthorn is always crisp and 

 clear-cut, and the flowers well set and symmetrical. 

 Where a mass of the bushes, untrimmed and throw- 

 ing out long sprays, forms a natural hedge, the effect 

 of a solid barrier is lent to the landscape an effect 

 wholly different from that given by either Dogwoods, 

 Viburnums, or Elder flowers, and making one wish 

 that the climate would allow the Hawthorn's uni- 

 versal use to make in America living fences such as 

 border even the railways of the Old World. 



The Choke Cherry is also frequently a wayfarer, 

 and though, when untrimmed, it grows ten feet in 

 height, its constant repression by the roadside stub 

 scythe usually keeps it a dwarf bush. In blooming 

 time its foliage, which is of the plum -leaf type, 

 alone separates it at a casual glance from the Black 



