The Hazel. 



278. When Hawthorns are planted out singly, or in 

 clumps of three or four, it is very desirable that, to their 

 other great beauties of leaf and flower, they add that of a 

 straight stem. This a transplanted Hawthorn never will 

 have, if the transplantion of it take place at too advanced an 

 age. Five years old is quite old enough ; for, if they be 

 tall, the wind blows them on one side, and they become 

 and remain leaning and unsightly things. If they do lean 

 on one side, and cannot be easily restored to an erect posi- 

 tion, they ought to be cut down to the ground, and a new 

 stem sutFered to come up. 



279. The wood of the White Thorn, or Hawthorn, is 

 very hard and compact ; and, when it attains to any consi- 

 derable size, it is used for most of the purposes which have 

 been spoken of as those to which the wood of the Crab is 

 usually destined. As underwood, it produces mere bushes ; 

 and it ought not to be suffered to interfere with the other 

 underwoods. 



In Latin, Coryhis ; in French, Noisettiers. 



280. The botanical characters are : — It has male and female flowers grow- 

 ing at remote distances on the same tree. The male flowers are produced in 

 long scaly katkins, each scale including a single flower, having no petals, 

 but eight short stamina fastened to the side of the scale, and terminated by 

 oblong erect summits. The female flowers are included in the future bud, 

 sitting close to the branches ; these have a thick two-leaved perianthiuni, 

 torn on the border, sitting under the flower when it is small, but it is after- 

 wards enlarged to the size of the fruit ; it has no petal, but a small roundish 

 germen occupies the centre, supporting two bristly coloured styles, which 

 are laxger than the erapalement, crowned by single stigmas. The germen 

 afterwards becomes an oval nut, shaved at the base and compressed at the 

 top, ending in a point. 



