The Fyracantha^ or evergreen-thorn. 53 



utmost intensity of our frosts, equally well as the indi- 

 genous plants in this neighbourhood. I have said no- 

 thing of the beauty of Pyracantha hedges, that being 

 only a secondary consideration : nevertheless, few of 

 the vegetable tribes can exhibit, in the fall of the year, 

 a richer and more splendid display of beauty, than the 

 vast profusion of its clustered berries show among the 

 empurpled foliage of the plant, particularly as it ap- 

 pears before the eye that pursues the long continued 

 perspective riband of it in a hedge-row. 



I have a considerable quantity of Pyracantha ber- 

 ries, which will be sold in small parcels to applicants, 

 any time before March, Letters (post paid) will re- 

 ceive all proper attention. 



George Town, District of 

 Columbia, Dec, 1812. 



mesfiilus pyracantha by botanists : and buisson ardent in French, 

 from the redness of its berries. 



Dr. Martyn further remarks, that the genera Crataegus, Sorbus 

 and Mespilus are very nearly allied, and scarcely to be distinguish- 

 ed by the number of styles. The leaves in Sorbus are pinnate, in 

 Crataegus, angular, and in Mespilus, commonly entire. 



Martyn' s Edition of Miller's Gardener's Dictionary. 



J. M. 



