THE HAWTHORNS. 



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length ; it is coral-red, and ripens in September. The 

 tree grows from 10 to 20 feet high, and has long 

 spreading branches. It may be found in moist woods 

 or in rich groimd from southern Virginia southward 

 to Florida, and westward to Arkansas and Texas. 



The white 



A White or 



sMJ jL Soarlet-fruited thorn, 



•™^*' Thorn. 



some- 

 times called 

 coccinea, scarlet-iruit- 

 ed thorn, is 

 a small tree 



White Thorn. 



(often a shrub), scarcely over 25 feet high, which, may 

 be found in woods or on the borders of fields through- 

 out the North ; it is rather rare southward, although 



