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Branches spotted with white ; leaves cut into three, five, or seven 

 segments, accuminate, the size of birch-leaves. Petiole very slender, 

 shorter than the leaves : corymb compound : bractes at the base of 

 the peduncles, solitary, subulate, very small, deciduous : flowers some- 

 what smaller than the European hawthorn : teeth of the calyx very 

 short, obtuse, falling off when the fruit is ripe : styles five : fruit an 

 oblate spheroid, scarlet, the size of a red currant : the navel loose, 

 naked : stones five, tops filling up the navel, and naked. It flowers 

 the last of the genus. 



6. Cratsegus pyrifolia, or pear-leaved hawthorn. Leaves ovate- 

 elliptic, gash-serrate, somewhat plaited and hirt, calyxes a little villose, 

 leaflets linear-lanceolate serrate, flowers three-staled. This species is 

 sometimes unarmed. 



7. Cratsegus elliptica, or oval-leaved hawthorn. Leaves elliptic, 

 unequally serrate smooth, petioles and calyxes glandular, fruit globu- 

 lar, five-seeded. 



8. Craleegus glandulosa, or hollow-leaved hawthorn. Leaves obo- 

 vate-wedge-form, angular, smooth, glittering ; petioles, stipules, and 

 calyxes glandular ; fruit oval, Jive-seeded. 



This has very stout thorns. It flowers in May, and is a very 

 beautiful shrub. 



9. Crat&egus flava, or yellow pear-berried hawthorn. Leaves ovate, 

 wedge-form, angular, smooth, glittering; petioles, stipules, and calyxes 

 glandular ; fruit turbinate, four-seeded. 



There are often small leaves on the thorns, which in this and the 

 following species, are slender, and a little bent at the ends ; it flowers 

 in May. 



10. Cratsegus parviflora, or gooseberry-leaved hawthorn. Leaves 

 wedge-form-ovate gashed serrate ; calycine leaflets gashed the length 

 of the fruit ; flowers five-styled. 



This is of humble growth, seldom rising more than five or six feet, 

 sending out a great number of branches, which are interwoven and 

 armed with very long slender spines. The leaves are scarcely an 

 inch long, and some are not more than half an inch broad, but others 

 are almost as broad as they are long ; they are serrate, and have very 

 short footstalks. The flowers are produced at the ends of the 

 branches, generally one coming out from between the leaves, but 

 sometimes there are two or three, one below the other at the axils ; 

 they have large leafy calyxes, much longer than the petals ; they are 

 small, have twelve or more stamens, and four styles. The fruit is 

 small, and of an herbaceous yellow color when ripe. 



There are many other varieties of the hawthorn in the United 

 States ; but these being generally unfurnished with spines, are not 

 so suitable for hedges as those described. Of the above, the first, 

 second, and third sorts, where they can conveniently be had, are the 

 best kinds to cultivate ; but either of them will answer that purpose 

 very well. The cultivation of all the species is similar. 



For further particulars, and for the best methods of planting 

 hedges, as well as the several kinds of trees and shrubs most suitable 

 for them, see the Nursery in March. 



