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for the Thorns will be better, as otherways (they growing in a 

 loofe ftraggling manner) it will be difficult to raife them with 

 ftraight clean bodies. 



The Pyracantha or Evergreen Thorn is a trailing plant, and 

 cannot be raifed to a fightly ftandard, but is very propci 'X»r co- 

 vering walls near the houfe, where the fliining verdure of the 

 leaves in winter, almoft covered with large bunches of rich fcar- 

 let-coloured fruit, is extremely beautiful. They are eafily propa- 

 gated from feeds fown in February, in the fame manner as the 

 common Hawthorn, but in a fhady border, part of which will 

 rife the lirft, and the remainder the fecond fpring, and thefemake - 

 much better plants than thofe increafed by layers. 



I HAVE ever thought we pay too little refpedl to the common 

 Hawthorn in our ornamental plantations, as, in thefeafon of its 

 bloom, I know few trees exceed it either in beauty or fragrance ; 

 I would therefore recommend it more in wildernefa work, as well 

 as fingle plants in lawns, where a confiderable number of them, 

 judicioufly interfperfed with others, would highly decorate thofe 

 fcenes. The Thorn too, unconfined, aud its natural luxuriance 

 of growth encouraged, becomes a ftately tree; and the wood, 

 which is extremely hard, and finely variegated, particularly to- 

 wards the root, is not inferior to Box for many curious and 

 ufeful pm'pofes. 



