THE HAWTHORNS. 



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Yellow or Summer The yellow or summer haw is a 

 ^^^- Southern variety of the thorn which 



Oratceffusjlam. ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ 20 feet high, and is 



esteemed for its fruit, which is edible and 

 pleasant flavored ; it is yellow, tinged with 

 red, generally pear-shaped, but frequently 

 round. The leaf is somewhat wedge- 

 shaped, but variable. This thorn extends 

 through the South from Yirginia to Mis- 

 souri, 

 flouthem Summer The Southern 



^*^- haw is a Southern thorn 



which grows not higher than 30 



summer Yellow or sum- 

 mer Haw. 



Summer Southern Haw. Summer Southern Haw, with larger fruit. 



feet, and bears fragrant, edible fruit, bright red, 

 somewhat dotted, and about two thirds of an inch ia 



