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spinosa), the flowering season of which is locally known 

 as Blackthorn winter. Later in the season we inhale 

 the fragrance of the Hawthorn, or Whitethorn (Cra- 

 tcegus oxyacanthd), many fine old specimens of which 

 are distributed over the Park, the Warren, Booker's 

 Down, West Harting Down, and other localities in the 

 parish. Then follow the woolly-leaved Wayfaring tree 

 ( Viburnum Lantand) in almost every cover and hedge- 

 row on the chalk, the Guelder Rose ( V. opulus) which 

 displays its clusters of rich crimson glossy berries 

 every autumn on the waste near the Severals, the 

 common Buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus) frequent 

 on the chalk, the Alder Buckthorn (R. franguld) found 

 on the clay and the sand in the Nyewoods, the 

 Severals, and at West Heath, the Privet (Ligustrum 

 imlgare), sparingly met with on the chalk in the Leith, 

 and on the clay in the Corner piece on West Harting 

 Farm, the Dogwood, or Wild Cornel (Cornus san- 

 guined), the purple and crimson foliage of which in the 

 autumn is so constant a feature in all our hedges and 

 thickets, the Spindle tree (Euonymus Europced), not 

 the least ornamental of our wild shrubs when loaded, 

 as it often is in favourable seasons, with a profusion of 

 its delicate pink-coloured angular capsules and deep 

 yellow seeds long after the fall of the leaf, the Common 

 Elder (Sambucus nigra), ranging all over the parish, 

 and the Dwarf Elder (Sambucus ebulus) in more than 

 one field on East Harting Farm, particularly in the 

 Engine Barn Field on the south side of Tipper Lane, 

 and in a meadow near the Hatches on Hurst Farm. 



Intermediate between our wild shrubs and creepers, 

 are the Brambles and the numerous species of Wild 

 Rose, but we are very imperfectly acquainted with 

 them. We have identified the common Blackberry 

 (Rubus fruticosa], which often forms a large tangled 

 mass of stout arched stems and young shoots, the 

 latter bearing a profusion of pretty pink blossoms in 

 summer and a rich crop of its well-known glossy black 



