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The Washington Haw is a lirautifiil and 

 clearly defined tree \\itl] sleiuler thorns and 

 marked individuality. It attains the height 

 of 2.5 or 30 ft. at times, with lofty rounded or 

 spreading top and a clear trunk 10 or 12 in. 

 in diameter and or 7 ft. to the branches, or 

 is sometimes only a large spreading shrub. 

 The bark of the trunk is of a grayish or pale 

 brown color and exfoliates in thin small scale.s. 

 It occupies the low moi^t but well draineil 

 soil of bottom-lands and the hanks of streams, 

 but is nowhere abundant in a «ild state. It 

 has. however, prabal)ly been more extensively 

 planted for ornamental purposes than an''' 

 other Anu^'iean species, and may have l)eeom>e 

 naturalized in localities outside of its native 

 habitat indicated on the accompanying map. 

 It is hardy at least as far north as Kew York, 

 It is said to be even more extensively grown 

 in Europe than in this country, having been 

 introduced as early as in tlie seventeenth cen- 

 tury and was named there. It has long lieen 

 popular for hedges, as w(dl as (U'nament, and 

 is said to have reeeiveil its common name from 

 the fact tliat nearly a century ago it was 

 introduced from the vicinity I'f \\"ashington, 

 D, C, into Chester Co,, Pa,, wheie it l)ecame 

 popular and was extensi\'idy ])laiited, 



Lfnrrfi broad-ovate to triangular, IVi-'-^'j in, 

 lon^, truncate to olttuse or wide-cordate and entire 

 al" Itase, mostl.v acute or acuminate, commonly \\'itl] 

 rt-T spreading pointed coarsely serrate loi)es, tliin 

 and lustron,s dark green at maturity, paler In'- 

 neath ; petioles long and slender, Floinr^ in 

 early .Tune, in many-ftrovcrcd -liiiu'diis ciM-yaihs, 

 calyx with short lohes puhnseenf inside: stamens 

 20, rose-colored; styles l'-,"., hairy a I liase. I'niit 

 ripening in October anil persisring mi the branebes 



until spring, depiessrd -Inimse, Seiil-cely 1, in in 



diameter, bright red, tlie e;i lyx-lobes falling a\\'ay ; 

 nutlets ,'V,5, about ^^ in. bnig. 



