ROSE TRIBE. 



ims GERMANICA (Common Medlar). 



its mode of growth, shape of its leaves, and colour of 

 its flowers and fruit, is so well known as to need no 

 description. The name Hawthorn is supposed to be a 

 corruption of the Dutch hceg or hedge thorn ; although, 

 therefore, the fruit is generally called a haw, that name 

 is derived from the tree which produces it, and the tree 



