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rant: the navel loose, naked: stones five, tops filling up the navel, 

 and naked. It flowers the last of the genus. 



4. Crataegus pyrifolia, or pear-leaved hawthorn. Leaves ovate- 

 eliptic, gash-serrate, somewhat plaited and hirt, calyxes a little 

 villose, leaflets linear lanceolate serrate, flowers three-styled. This 

 species is sometimes unarmed. 



5. Crataegus eliptica, or oval-leaved hawthorn. Leaves eliptic, 

 unequally serrate smooth, petioles and calyxes glandular, fruit 

 globular, five-seeded. 



6. Crataegus glandulosa, or hollow-leaved hawthorn. Leaves 

 obovatc-iccdgeform, angular, smooth, glittering; petioles, stipules, 

 and calyxes glandular; fruit oval; five-seeded. 



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

 beautiful shrub. 



7. Crataegus flava, or yellow pear-berried hawthorn. Leaves 

 ovate, vjedge-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. 



8. Crataegus parviflora, or gooseberry-leaved hawthorn. Leaves 

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

 of the fruit; flotvers 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 arc almost as broad as they are long; they are serrate, and 

 have very short foot-stalks. 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 yellowy colour 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 suit- 

 able for them, see the Aurscry in March. 



Sowing various hind* of hardy Tree and Shrub Seeds, which 

 require a previous Preparation. 



Ash, hornbean, red cedar, me/.creon, juniper, holly, yew, spin- 

 dle-tree, bladder-nut, and Iannises of various kinds, with many 

 others, will require the same preparation as directed for haws; they 

 must be sown at the same time, and covered only in proportion to 



