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TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order, 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



Crataegus monogyna 

 (sub-species) 



C. oxyacanthoides 

 (sub-species) 



'C. pinnatifida 



China and 

 Central Asia 



Pure 

 white ; 

 May 



very handsome deep -red, 

 shading to pink in the centre ; 

 laciniata, a handsome tree 

 with deeply cut leaves, some- 

 times called C. apiifolia, but 

 must not be confounded with 

 North American species of 

 that name. Macrocarpa has 

 larger fruits than the type, 

 oxyphylla, large white flowers 

 andhandsomefruits, around- 

 headed tree. Prascox is the 

 Glastonbury Thorn, sup- 

 posed to flower at Christmas, 

 but rarely does so owing to 

 frost. This is the Thorn 

 which is associated with the 

 famous legend. *Semper- 

 florens is a good variety, a 

 low - growing tree, which 

 flowers for a much longer 

 period than the other Thorns. 

 Stricta makes a dense up- 

 right-growing tree, 30 feet or 

 more high ; it grows rapidly, 

 and when in flower is strik- 

 ingly distinct in appear- 

 ance. 

 This is distinguished from C. 

 monogyna by the styles and 

 seeds as stated above ; and 

 also by the larger leaves, 

 flowers, and fruit. All the 

 double-flowered Thorns be- 

 long to this section. Atro- 

 fusca, a large, shapely tree, 

 of weeping growth ; the 

 flowers large, pure white, 

 and the fruits fair sized and 

 abundantly produced. *Flore- 

 pleno albo, the double white 

 Thorn, with purest white 

 flowers. This, like the other 

 double Thorns, rarely fruit. 

 *Flore-pleno coccineo, the 

 double Scarlet Thorn, one of 

 the most beautiful of trees 

 when covered with its scarlet 

 flowers. Very pleasing when 

 grouped with the double 

 white variety or the Labur- 

 num ; *Paurs double Scarlet, 

 a well-known and beautiful 

 Thorn. *Flore puniceo, a 

 rich purpUsh pink, single, 

 and fructu luteo, bright 

 yellow fruits, effective in 

 autumn. 

 The variety *major is the 

 best to glow. It is stronger, 

 and has very large leaves, 



