FLOWERING SHRUBS 
Beneath thy flower-encircled wand 
No peasant trains advance ; 
No more they lead with sportive tread 
The merry, merry dance. 
The Violet blooms with modest grace 
Beneath her crest of leaves, 
The Primrose shows her paly face, 
Her wreaths the Woodbine weaves. 
The Cowslip bends her golden head, 
And Daisies deck the lea; 
But ah, no more in grove or bower 
The Queen of May we'll see. 
Weep, weep, then, virgin Queen of May, 
Thy ancient reign is o’er; 
Thy votaries now are lowly laid, 
And thou art Queen no more.” 
The Pear Thorn is one of the finest of our native species, 
often rising to the height of from fifteen to twenty feet, with 
a stout rough-barked stem. When in flower it forms a fine 
ornament to our open woods and thickets, for it is not found 
in the depths of the forest; it haunts the open edges of 
woods, and more especially is found along the banks of 
rivers and creeks. The flowers are much larger, though less 
delicate in scent, than the English Hawthorn. The leaves 
are thick and tough, but smooth and shining, unequally 
toothed, ovate-oblong; thorns, long, sharp and slender. The 
white cup-shaped flowers with dark anthers grow in hand- 
some corymbs, many-flowered on the summits of the sprays. 
The fruit is large, round and of a bright scarlet or orange. 
SCARLET-FRUITED THORN—Crategus coccinea (L.). 
is no less ornamental than the former, and also forms a fine 
high flowering bush; the fruit is of a pleasant acid taste and 
of a fine bright scarlet; the leaves are thin, partly lobed and 
sharply cut at the rounded margin. This thorn grows tall 
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