TREES AND SHRUBS 



EASTERN THORN, Cratwgus orientalis. 



Parks, gardens. May, June. 



Floxvers white, fragrant, corymbose; Fruit a pome, globose, yellowish- 

 red or purple, 5-cornered. 



Leaves alternate, 3-lobed, lobes ovate, deeply toothed at apex, middle 

 lobe trifid, pubescent, stipules broad. 



A deciduous tree, 15 ft. ; flat-headed ; Bnutdws with hoary tomentum. 



Introduced from the Levant, 1810. Syn. Mcspilus Aronia (Willd). 



HAWTHORN, Crattcgus Oxyaccmtha. 



Woods, hedges, gardens. May, June. " Our hedges in May can boast 

 no ornament at all comparable to the Hawthorn, whose blossoms, by their 

 exquisite fragrance, their snowy beauty, and their early blooming, render it 

 the universal favourite among our wild shrubs ; while poets have long sung 

 the praises of the sweet May-blossom, identifying it even in name with the 

 fair month of its birth." The Glastonbury Thorn, which blossoms at mid- 

 winter, is the variety prcecox, of the sub-genus monogyna. 



Floivers white or pink, f in. diam., sweet-scented, attracting flies, protero- 

 gynous, m a sessile corijmbose cyme, on short leafy branches, pedicels glabrous, 

 many-flowered ; Calyx glabrous or slightly downy, tube urceolate, segments 

 acute ; Petals broad ; Stamens numerous, anthers pinkish-brown ; Ovary 1-3 

 carpels, styles 1-3 ; Fruit a small pome, globular or ovoid, crowned by 

 small divisions of persistent calyx, dark red or sometimes yellow, mealy, 

 insipid, containing a hard, bony 1-2-celled nut, each cell with a single seed. 



Leaves obovate cuneiform, very variable, 3-5 segments, petiolate, obtuse, 

 glabrous, shining, lobes serrated or entire, stipules leafy, ^ sagittate, toothed. 

 Autumn tints brown, orange, yellow, crimson. 



A deciduous thorny shrub or small tree, 10-40 ft.; Tivigs red or brown, 



forming a dense network; Bark dull grey, smooth, tendency to flaking in 



old trees ; Buds short, ovoid-pohited or conic, scales red brown, smooth ; Wood 



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