STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 



and slender in close thickets and shade, but seems to prefer 

 open ground and plenty of sunshine, when it forms a lovely 

 compact tree and flowers abundantly; the fruit is not so 

 large as in the last species, and is of a deeper red color. 



The English White Thorn (Cratcegus oxyacantlia L.) in 

 some situations grows beautifully, but is apt to dwindle and 

 become mossy and gnarled in unsuitable places where it is 

 neglected. 



I saw a most perfect specimen of the English White Thorn 

 at Port Hope, on the lawn at the residence of C. Kirkhoffer, 

 Esq., at the western side of the town; it was in full flower 

 at the time, and formed one of the most beautiful objects I 

 ever saw; it was worth going miles to look upon it and to 

 inhale the sweetness of its abundant white blossoms. 



There appears to have been little attempt made to culti- 

 vate our hawthorns as hedge plants, though one might 

 naturally suppose that such would have been adopted in 

 places where the difficulty and expense of obtaining rail 

 timbers is now being sensibly felt by the farmer. The cedar 

 and hemlock are largely used for garden enclosures. Why 

 not try the hawthorn also? 



SMALL CRANBERRY Vaccinium Oxy coccus (L.). 



" There's not a flower but shews some touch, 

 In freckle, freck or stain, 



Of His unrivalled pencil." 



Hemans. 



There is scarcely to be found a lovelier little plant than 

 the common Marsh Cranberry. It is of a trailing habit, 

 creeping along the ground, rooting at every joint, and send- 

 ing up little leafy upright stems, from which spring long 

 slender thready pedicels, each terminated by a delicate 

 peach-blossom-tinted flower, nodding on the stalk so as to 

 throw the narrow petals upward. The leaves are small, of 



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