THE HAWTHORNS 



SMALL trees or shrubs, with rigid, thorny branches. Leaves 

 simple, alternate, deciduous, stipulate, serrate, often lobed. 

 Flowers perfect, usually white, in corymbs on short side twigs. 

 Fruits drupe-like pomes, with hard nutlets containing the 

 seeds. Wood hard, tough, reddish, close-grained. Uses: 

 Ornamental trees and hedge plants; wood used for tool -handles 

 and mallets. 



