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CRATGEGUS OXYACANTHA VAR. ROSEA. 
(deep rose coloured FLOWERING HAWTHORN.) 
LINNjEAN CLASS AND ORDER. NATURAL ORDER. 
ICGSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. ROSACEA. 
Generic Character. — Calyx, tube pitcher-shaped, limb in five divisions. Corolla , petals subrotund. 
Stamens seated on a glandular ring within the calyx. Styles , from two to five, smooth. Fruit , 
a fleshy pome, somewhat globular, closed, five-celled. Seeds single or two together in each cell. 
Shell bony. 
Specific Character. — Leaves rather smaller and not so deep a green as the common. Growth irregular, 
branches spreading obliquely upwards or horizontal, with points drooping, thickly set with flower- 
bearing spurs along their whole length. Habit, in other respects, like the common hawthorn. 
Our drawing- was taken from one of a fine assortment of standards and dwarfs, in 
Mr. Malcolm’s, Kensington Nursery, in June last. 
We have long- had the common scarlet flowering- hawthorn in our shrubberies ; 
and many of the wild ones, like the double white variety, may be seen to die off a 
blush tint. But our present subject is much more deeply vivid rose colour than 
any other, and no less conspicuous in this respect than admired for the profusion 
and elegant disposition of its corymbs of flowers along the upper sides of the branches, 
forming perfect garlands 
The common hawthorn or “ May,” as it is provincially called, with its snow- 
white blossoms ranged along each spray, is admired by everybody ; but how much 
more attractive is this scarce and splendid variety, combining the intense colouring 
of the rose with the delicate elegance of the kalmia. 
The early history of this ornamental plant is somewhat imperfect. Mr. Malcolm 
received it from a nursery at Perth (Messrs. Brown and Dickson s ?), nearly 
twenty years ago, and though it has been extensively propagated at Kensington, 
and no doubt elsewhere, it does not appear to have been noticed, nor so extensively 
planted as it deserves. 
It is propagated by working on the common thorn, either as dwarfs, or as half or 
whole standards, for lawns, on which no other hardy flowering tree can be more 
ornamental. It would even add a richness and be no mean embellishment of the 
flower garden. 
