142 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



diameter. This is gathered in quantities where the 

 tree is common, and sold in the markets of the towns 

 in southwestern Louisiana. It is made into preserves 

 and jelly. The leaf is somewhat wedge-shaped, leath- 

 ery, and toothed above the middle. The summer 

 haw grows from the valley of the Savannah Eiver, 

 South Carolina, to northern Florida ; it extends 

 westward to Texas. This tree bears the largest 

 flowers and the best-flavored fruit of all the thorns. 



