RED HAW (Cratcegus Holmesiana, Ashe). 20 to 30 feet. 

 Tall tree with open, irregular head, or compact, with stout 

 branches. Thorns few, l to 2 inches long, thick, mostly 

 straight, brown. Bark pale gray or nearly white, scaly. 

 Leaves ovate, serrate, irregular lobed above middle, nearly 

 smooth, yellow-green, 1^ to 2 inches long with long stems and 

 strong ribs. Flowers May, cup-shaped, in loose clusters; 

 stamens 5 to 8, with large purplish anthers; styles 3, with ring 

 of hairs around base. Fruit ripe in September, soon falling, 

 crimson, oblong, ^ to f inch long, with reddish, incurving 

 calyx lobes; flesh mealy, acid, not pleasant to taste; nutlets 

 3, distinctly ridged. Dist.: Montreal to southern Ontario, 

 coast of Maine to western half of Massachusetts, Rhode Is- 

 lanfl, western New York, and eastern Pennsylvania. Laigest 

 hawthorn in New England. Fine ornamental tree. 



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