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object, at the close of autumn, as it was-in the opening 
summer.” 
€. circinata,—Round-leaved Cornel. — A spreading 
shrub from four to six feet high, with roundish leaves. 
The young shoots are green, blotched with purple; flow- 
ers white; fruit blue, turning whitish, and ripe in October. 
C. stolonifera.—Red-stemmed Cornel.—The main stem 
is usually prostrate and sends up slender erect branches, 
five to eight feet high; flowers white, and fruit lead-col- 
ored. This plant is conspicuous towards the end of win- 
ter for the rich red color of its stems and shoots. 
C. paniculata.—Panicled Cornel.—About six feet high, 
with rather irregular branches. Flowers+ produced in 
great profusion in May and June, and are succeeded by 
white berries, which ripen in August and September, at 
which time the fruit-stalks become a delicate pale scarlet. 
CRATZAGUS,—Tue Torn. 
(Name from the Greek, signifying strength, from the hardness of the wood.] 
In relation to this genus Mr. Emerson remarks : — “ It 
is found that a greater variety of beautiful small trees and 
ornamental shrubs can be formed of the several species of 
Thorn, than of any kind of tree whatever. Thus they 
give persons, whose grounds are not extensive, the means 
of ornamenting their grounds with great facility. If 
trained as trees, they have an appearance of singular neat- 
ness united with a good degree of vigor; and the read- 
iness with which they are pruned and grafted, renders 
them susceptible of almost any shape which the fancy of 
the owner would have them assume. Some of the species, 
native to Massachusetts, often take, even in a state of na- 
ture, the shape of handsome low trees Of these, the 
flowers and foliage have great beauty, and the scarlet 
