CRATjE'GUS ODORATIS'SIMA. 
SWEET-SCENTED HAWTHORN. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA. DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
POMACE JE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Crimea. 
12 feet 
May, June. 
Tree. 
in 1836. 
No. 1247. 
Crataegus alludes to its hard wood; No. 1059 . 
In the course of this work we have published 
nearly all the most desirable Hawthorns for park 
or shrubbery cultivation ; those which are remark- 
able either for the size of their fruit, beauty of 
flowers, fragrance, or general character as objects 
in the landscape, in which many of them produce 
an effect peculiarly their own. Were we limited to 
a single species, our own sweet Hawthorn — the 
fountain of fragrance in spring, and the type of 
fruitfulness in autumn, would be our choice. It is 
the very Proteus of plants, having more than thirty 
distinct varieties, some drooping, others upright ; 
flowers double, single, pink, and white. Its fruits 
of many hues, as black, white, golden, scarlet, or- 
ange, green, and crimson ; and its leaves of innu- 
merable shapes. 
Crataegus odoratissima is remarkable for its pro- 
duction of abundance of large red fruit, of which 
our coloured figure represents the natural size, the 
flower being two-thirds the size of nature ; they are 
produced in great profusion and are highly fragrant 
Propagate by grafting on the common Hawthorn. 
