196 NATURE AND WOODCRAFT. 



Nowhere are old-fashioned hedgerows so 

 common as in England, and the most pro- 

 minent fruits of these are hips and haws. 

 *' Many haws, many snows," is a proverb 

 which associates a hard winter with an abundant 

 crop of this particular fruit. The Hawthorn is 

 always beautiful — first with its snowy or pink 

 blossoms in spring, and now with its variable 

 fruit. Sometimes this is woolly, then golden 

 yellow, yet again of a bright deep red — a 

 gaudy advertisement which the tree hangs out 

 to many a hard-pressed bird. 



Only those learned in botanical lore know 

 how many species of wild roses there really are 

 in England. Some are better known than 

 others, and one way of distinguishing them is 

 by their fruits. The White Dog-rose has bright 

 red berries, globular in shape, and mounted on 

 purple foot-stalks. Then there is the Common 

 Dog-rose, with its flask-shaped scarlet fruit; and 

 the hips of the Sweet-briar, which are elliptical. 



Nearly akin to this — the Eglantine of the older 

 poets — is the Woolly-leaved rose, a beautiful 

 species, the whole plant being covered with 

 glandular hairs, which emit a delicious aroma. 

 This odour and the hairs are also characteristic 



