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Oriental Flowering Trees and Shrubs 
Flowering Hawthorn - Crataegus Oxycantha 
The double-flowering Hawthorns are hardy, ornamental trees of dense 
habit, handsome foliage, and attractive, fragrant flowers. The ones we have 
to offer are garden varieties of the English Hawthorn. These improved 
forms are double flowering and make beautiful specimens and could well 
be used in a grouping with Oriental Flowering Trees. 
Hawthorns were the most popular flowering trees before the Flowering 
Cherries and Crabapples became known. Even though now somewhat 
eclipsed by these gorgeous blooming Oriental trees, the splendor of their 
bloom still makes them a favorite with garden lovers. Undoubtedly they 
deserve a prominent place in any garden. They are entirely hardy in New 
England and the greater portion of the middle West, probably anywhere. 
Hawthorn 
Flowering Hawthorn 
comes in many varieties 
of single and double. The 
type is a creamy white 
flowering sort, a small tree 
12 to 20 feet high and wide, 
used as a hedge plant in 
Northern and Central Europe. 
The cultivated garden va¬ 
rieties are: Single pale pink, 
rosy pink, red and crimson. The 
double varieties can be had in 
white, pink, scarlet and red sorts 
in France. In America the double 
pink, double scarlet and white ap¬ 
pear to be all that can be had. In 
the colder sections of Pennsylvania, 
New York and New England they 
thrive, while in the Philadel phia sec¬ 
tion they bloom freely. They do not 
appear to hold their leaves after Aug¬ 
ust, ripening then sufficiently to become 
dormant, producing a new crop of 
foliage in September. 
