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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
The Thorn Tree. Crategus. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacese. Lin. Syst. Icosandria, Di-pentagynia. 
A tree of the smallest size ; but though many of the sorts 
attain only the stature of ordinary shrubs, yet some of our 
native species, as well as the English Hawthorn, (C. oxy- 
cantha : ) when standing alone, will form neat, spreading- 
topped trees, of twenty or thirty feet in height. 
Although the thorn is not generally viewed among us as a 
plant at all conducive to the beauty of scenery, yet we are in- 
duced to mention it here, and to enforce its claims in that 
point of view, as they appear to us highly entitled to consid- 
eration. First, the foliage — deep green, shining, and often 
beautifully cut and diversified in form — is prettily tufted and 
arranged upon the branches; secondly, the snowy blossoms — 
often produced in such quantities as to completely whiten 
the whole head of the tree, and which in many sorts have a 
delightful perfume — present a charming appearance in the 
early part of the season ; and thirdly, the ruddy crimson or 
purple haws or fruit, which give the whole plant a rich and 
glowing appearance in and among our fine forests, open 
glades, or wild thickets, in autumn. 
The most ornamental, and the strongest growing in- 
digenous kinds are the Scarlet Thorn tree ( C . coccinea ,) and 
its varieties, the Washington Thorn, (C. populifolidy and the 
Cockspur Thorn, ( C . crus-galli) ; all of which in good soil, 
will grow to the height of twenty or thirty feet, and can 
readily be transplanted from their native sites. 
The English Hawthorn is not only a beautiful small tree, 
but it is connected in our minds, with all the elegant, poetic, 
