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rant: the navel loose, naked: stones five, tops filling up the navel, 
and naked. It flowers the last of the genus. 
4. Cratsegus pyrifoHa, or pear-leaved hawthorn. Leaves ovate- 
diptie, gash-serrate, somewhat plaited and hirt, calyxes a little 
viltose, leaflets linear -lanceolate serrate, flowers three-styled. This 
species is sometimes unarmed. 
5. Cratsegus eliptica, or oval-leaved hawthorn. Leaves eliptic, 
unequally serrate smooth, petioles and calyxes glandular, fruit 
globular, five-seeded. 
6. Crataegus glandulosa, or hollow-leaved hawthorn. Leaves 
obovate-wedge-form, angular, smooth, glittering; petioles, stipules, 
and calyxes glandular; fruit oval; flve-seeded. 
This has very stout thorns. It flowers in May, and is a very 
beautiful shrub. 
7. Cratsegus flava, or yellow pear-berried hawthorn. Leaves 
ovate, wedge-form, angular, smooth, glittering; petioles, stipules, 
and calyxes glandular; fruit turbinate; four seeded. 
There are often small leaves on the thorns, which in this and the 
following species, are slender, and a little bent at the endsj it 
flowers in May. 
8. Cra/ffgMs^arui^ora, or gooseberry-leaved hawthorn. Leaves 
wedge-form-ovate gashed serrate; calycine leaflets gashed the length 
of the fruit; flowers five- styled. 
This is of humble growth, seldom rising more than five or six 
feet, sending out a great number of branches, which are interwoven 
and armed with very long slender spines. The leaves are scarcely 
an inch long, and some are not more than half an inch broad, but 
others are almost as broad as they are long; they are serrate, and, 
have very short foot-stalks. The flowers are produced at the ends 
of the branches, generally one coming out from between the leaves, 
but sometimes there are two or three, one below the other at the 
axils; they have large leafy calyxes, much longer than the petals; 
they are small, have twelve or more stamens, and four styles. 
The fruit is small, and of an herbaceous yellow colour when ripe. 
There are many other varieties of the hawthorn in the United 
States; but these being generally unfurnished with spines, are not 
so suitable for hedges as those described. Of the above, the first, 
second and third sorts, where they can conveniently be had, are 
the best kinds to cultivate; but either of them will answer that 
purpose very well. The cultivation of all the species is similar. 
For further particulars, and for the best methods of planting 
hedges, as well as the several kinds of trees and shrubs most suit- 
able for them, see the Nursery in March. 
Sowing various kinds of hardy Tree and Shrub Seeds, which 
require a previous Preparation. 
Ash, hornbean, red cedar, mezereon, juniper, holly, yew, spin- 
dle-tree, bladder-nut, and lauruses of various kinds, with many 
others, will require the same preparation as directed for haws; they 
must be sown at the same time, and covered only in proportion to 
