THE CRATAEGUS, OR THE THORNS. 
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ling plants should be transplanted either after 
lhe first or second year's growth, as may be 
convenient ; and subsequently as often as it 
can be attended to, until they are planted in 
the situations they are intended permanently 
to occupy. 
In giving a descriptive list of the principal 
kinds of Crataegus, we shall arrange them in 
sections, in the hope of rendering somewhat 
easy of comprehension the principle of botani- 
cal classification. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF CRATAEGUS. 
§ I. MiCROCARPyE ; or, those species which 
agree in general characters with Crataegus 
microcarpa 
Leaves, lobed, or angulated, and shining. 
Spines, middle-sized. Fruit, very small, red, 
and remarkably late. 
C. microcarpa, Lindley. (The small- 
fruited Thorn.) — This is a native of the upper 
districts of Georgia and Carolina, growing to 
a small tree, from 8 ft. to 12 ft. in height, 
producing its small white flowers in medium 
sized bunches during May and June, and 
ripening its small red fruit in October. The 
plant is of rather slow growth ; the habit is 
spreading and rather pendulous^ and it is one 
01 the latest in coming into leaf. The leaves 
are handsome, smooth and shining, oblong- 
spa thulate, bluntly three lobed: and are usually 
produced in clusters. The fruit are usually 
produced abundantly on the tree, but being 
small, though of a bright red colour, they do 
not make much show. This is also called C. 
spathulala, and C. florida. 
C. cordata, Milier. (The heart-shaped- 
leaved Thorn.) — A native of hedges and rocky 
places from Canada to Virginia. It is a com- 
pact, close-headed smalt tree, of erect habit, 
growing from 15 ft. to 25 ft. high, and bear- 
ing numerous large terminal corymbs of small 
white flowers. The leaves are shining, deep 
green, cordate-ovate, with angular lobes ; the 
size 0;. the leaves varies greatly according to 
soil and other circumstances. The fruit are 
small, scarlet. It is one of the latest, flower- 
ing in June. It is called also C. aceriioiia, 
C. populilotia, and C. Phsenopyrum, 
§ IT. Oxyacantha ; or, those species which 
agree in, general characters Kith the common 
hawthorn, Crataegus Oxyacantha. 
Div. 1. Leaves, laeiniate. Spines, small. 
Fruit, middle sized, and mostly containing 
but one seed. 
C. Oxyacantha. Linnaer.s, (The com- 
mon Hawthorn.) — This is the common well- 
known hedge plant ; it forms a round-headed 
tree, with obovase, deeply cut leaves, and 
fragrant white flowers, succeeded by red fruit ; 
1he varieties are numerous; some of the most 
distinct are here enumerated : — 
C. Oxyacantha flcxuosa, Smith. — A dis- 
tinct variety, with a spreading habit, and 
having the smaller branches twisted in a 
curious zig-zag manner. 
C. Oxyacantha prcecox, of gardens. This 
is the Glastonbury Thorn, so famous for 
its earliness of flowering, which constitutes 
its chief difference. Jt comes into leaf in 
January or February, and sometimes, in 
mild seasons, even in December, 
C. Oxyacantha eriocarpa, Lindley. — A 
robust growing tree, with spreading habit, and 
large leaves ; it is very prolific in flowers, 
and the red fruit are woolly in the young 
state : it is one of the latest in coming into 
leaf. A very distinct variety. 
C. Oxyacantha capitata, Smith. — This 
differs from the species chiefly in having a 
more fastigiate habit, and in producing its 
flowers in close heads at the extremity of 
i the branches : the habit is erect. 
C. Oxyacantha mpnpgyna, Lindley. — This 
is a native of Siberia, with a dwarf and 
spreading habit, red fruit, and comes very 
early into leaf; in mild seasons it frequently 
flowers in January. It is also called . C 
Oxyacantha sibiriea, C. sibirica, and C. 
eriocarpa monogyna. 
C. Oxyacantha Jiava, of gardens. — A very 
distinct variety, which ought never to he 
omitted in collections. The fruit are roundish, 
and of a golden yellow, hanging on the tree 
all the winter, and are remarkably sweet ; the 
habit is dwarf and spreading. Called also 
C. Oxyacantha aurea. 
C. Oxyacantha flore-pleno, of gardens. — 
The flowers are white and double, and 
on some soils die off a pinkish or reddish 
colour. The habit is compact. Also 
known as C. Oxyacantha multiplex, and C. 
oxyacanthoides flore-pleno. This is a very 
beautiful kind. 
C. Oxyacantha olrlumta, De Candolle. — 
This has rather a spreading habit, and is pro- 
bably the single variety of the preceding. 
The leaves are small, flat, and shining. Jt 
is also sometimes named C. oxyacanthoides 
lucida, and C. lucida. 
C. Oxyacantha CeJsiana, of gardens. — A 
slender fastigiate growing variety. 
C. Oxyacantha fuliis aureis, Loddiges. — 
Has variegated leaves : wdien first unfolding 
in the spring they are showy, but afterwards 
look ragged and diseased. 
C. Oxyacantha fuliis argenteis, of gardens. 
— Has the leaves variegated with white. 
C, Oxyacantha quercifolia, Booth. — A 
robust grower : the habit erect, and the fruit 
red. Called also C. Oxyacantha transylvanica. 
C. Oxyacantha lacinkua, Loddiges. — The 
habit of this variety is slender, somewhat 
pendulous ; the fruit are red ; it is one of 
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