vigour, nor so rapid and robust as to be considered 
coarse and rambling. Their leaves are remarkably 
neatly cut and finely tufted ; their flowers appear 
in masses so abundant, in some species, as almost 
to cover the plant in the flowering season ; and 
their fruit is produced in as great abundance as 
their flowers. The fruit varies in size, from that 
of Crataegus spathulata, which is not much larger 
than a mustard seed, to that of Mexicana, which is 
about as large as a golden pippin apple.” If a 
man were, says Loudon, to be exiled to an estate 
without a single tree or shrub on it, with permis- 
sion to choose only one species of ligneous plants to 
form all his plantations, shrubberies, orchards, and 
flower-gardens, where would he find a genus that 
would afford him so many resources as that of Cra- 
taegus ? Here is the opinion of a writer of acknow- 
ledged judgment j still one who had never seen the 
beautiful clusters of miniature roses which we now 
figure as the produce of the Hawthorn. Our readers 
need not think of bushes being inconvenient in the 
garden. These plants may be kept to any size or 
form desired ; our own, whose flowers are here 
depicted, is but twelve inches high. The various 
species and varieties are propagated by grafting on 
stocks of the common Hawthorn, and consequently 
may be chosen of any height, and trained to any 
form. 
The double scarlet is certainly the most beauti- 
ful, still there are others that should be known ; as 
tanacitifolia and odoratissima, late flowerers, with 
large fruit. Also viridis and florida, dwarf species, 
with large flowers, well suited to small gardens. 
