43. 
THE HAWTHORN. 
Crategus oxyacantha. 
Prats 5, Fre. 10. 
LEE O woodland Tree or shrub is more 
f He . ‘e beautifully suggestive than the 
Hawthorn of that which we fondly 
call ‘the country.’ Its image is 
“273%, indeed so intimately interwoven 
with our mental pictures of the 
country that we never think of green 
fields, with their dividing hedges, without 
a thought of the sweet-scented Thorn, 
which lends to these living boundary-lines their 
greatest charm. Goldsmith, in the first eloquent 
burst of the description of his ‘Sweet Auburn,’ 
did not forget— 
