CRATiE'GUS OXY CAN'T H A . 
Var. aurea. 
GOLDEN-FRUITED HAWTHORN. 
Class. 
1COSANDRIA. 
Order. 
DI-PENTAG YNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACE JE. 
Seedling 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Cultivated 
Variety. 
15 feet. 
May, J une. 
Shrub. 
in 1796. 
No. 1059. 
The word, Crataegus, is founded on the Greek 
kratos, signifying strength ; and has been used in 
allusion to the hard wood of the Hawthorn. 
This variety of the common Hawthorn is called 
aurea, or golden-fruited ; its berries, in lieu of 
being red, like its more common congener, are of 
golden yellow. On this account it is desirable in 
the shrubbery, as a novelty, independently of being 
veiy ornamental. It is not commonly met with 
in cultivation ; and as it generally bears an abun- 
dance of berries, which continue on the trees all 
the winter, no respectable shrubbery should be 
without this golden-fruited variety. 
An observant person cannot have omitted to notice, 
that all such shrubs and trees, as are raised from 
seeds, produce an offspring varying in many parti- 
culars. In none is this more marked than in the 
Hawthorn, which so often bounds our roads on the 
right and on the left; filling it, in spring, with a 
powerful fragrance ; and in autumn, adorning it 
with diversified masses of golden foliage, and ber- 
ries of coral. The first opening buds of the Haw- 
thorn, in spring, show us a pleasing variety. All 
