THE HAWTHORNS. 



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length ; it is coral -red, and ripens in September. The 

 tree grows from 10 to 20 feet high, and lias ]<>iiL r 

 spreading branches. It may be found in moist woods 

 or in rich ground from southern Virginia southward 

 to Florida, and westward to Arkansas and Texa6. 



The white 



White or 



Scarlet-fruited 



Thorn ' times called 



thorn, some- 



Cratcegus 



coccinea. 



scarlet-fruit- 

 ed thorn, is 

 a small tree 



White Thorn. 



(often a shrub), scarcely over 25 feet high, which may 

 be found in woods or on the borders of fields through- 

 out the North; it is rather rare southward, although 



