The Hawthorn. ^ 



fore it is removed with great ease and safety. As it will 

 generally be wanted as single trees, or as clumps in p-'vl s, 

 it ma}', if required, stand in the nursery till it be four orfi^ e 

 feet high, and it will, even then, remove very well. Tlii> 

 tree would be beautiful in clumps, where it might be 

 planted at four feet distances, and thinned out in the manner 

 before several times directed for other deciduous trees. 



2/0. Of the WOOD of this tree, Michaux :!c-s >iot 

 speak highly, but the contrary. He says, it yields in pciiit 

 of quality (though in making articles of household furnittu'e 

 it is frequently used), to the Black Walnut and Wjld 

 Cherry ; but that still it is frequently used for such articles, 

 but particularly in the making of bedsteads. Michaux 

 adds, that this tree has grown for some time in France ; but 

 that it uever has been known to ripen its seed in Europ.\ 



THE S[ATr*r2IC>'^J 



In Latiiij Mespilus ; in French, Auheyine. 



271. The Botanical characters are : — This tree is a species of the Medlar. 

 The empalement of the flower is permanent, of one leaf cut into five spreading 

 concave segments. The flower is composed of five roundish concave petals, 

 Avhich are inserted in the empalement. The number of stamina are different 

 in the several species ; from ten to twenty or more ; these are also inserted 

 in the empalement, and are terminated by single summits. The g:) • is 

 situated under the flower, and supports an uncertain number of styles, Irom 

 three to five, which are crowned by headed stigmas. The germen afterwards 

 becomes a roundish berry, carrying the empalement on its top, and enclosing 

 four or five hard seeds. 



272. If we all knew how to propagate and cultivate this 

 tree as well as we know the height and the size of the tree, 

 and the leaf the flower and the thorns that it bears, I miglit 

 leave this name without any i-emarks appended to it; ' 



