STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
and slender in close thickets and shade, but seems to prefer 
open ground and plenty of sunshine, when it forms a lovely 
compact tree and flowers abundantly; the fruit is not so 
large as in the last species, and is of a deeper red color. 
The English White Thorn (Crategus oxyacantha—L.) in 
some situations grows beautifully, but is apt to dwindle and 
become mossy and gnarled in unsuitable places where it is 
neglected. 
I saw a most perfect specimen of the English White Thorn 
at Port Hope, on the lawn at the residence of C. Kirkhoffer, 
Esq., at the western side of the town; it was in full flower 
at the time, and formed one of the most beautiful objects I 
ever saw; it was worth going miles to look upon it and to 
inhale the sweetness of its abundant white blossoms. 
There appears to have been little attempt made to culti- 
vate our hawthorns as hedge plants, though one might 
naturally suppose that such would have been adopted in 
places where the difficulty and expense of obtaining rail 
timbers is now being sensibly felt by the farmer. The cedar 
and hemlock are largely used for garden enclosures. Why 
not try the hawthorn also? 
SMALL CRANBERRY—Vaccinium Oxycoccus (L.). 
‘* There’s not a flower but shews some touch, 
In freckle, freck or stain, 
Of His unrivalled pencil.” 
—Hemans. 
There is scarcely to be found a lovelier little plant than 
the common Marsh Cranberry. It is of a trailing habit, 
creeping along the ground, rooting at every joint, and send- 
ing up little leafy upright stems, from which spring long 
slender thready pedicels, each terminated by a delicate 
peach-blossom-tinted flower, nodding on the stalk so as to 
throw the narrow petals upward. The leaves are small, of 
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