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3 5 4 AUBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM.
biciilate. Styles 5. F ru it scarlet, eatable. {Dec. Prod.) A low tree. North
America, from Canada to Carolina, in hedges and woods. Height 15 ft.
to 20 ft. Introduced in 1683. F low e rsw h ite ; May and June. Fruit
large, round, or somewhat pear-shaped, Icarlet ; ripe in September. Decaying
leaves yellow, inclining to scarlet. Naked young wood dark-coloured ;
old wood with a whitish bark.
Varieties. I t would be easy to procure as many varieties o f this species as
there are of the common hawthorn, by raising some thousands of plants
every year from seed, and selecting from the seed-beds plants indicating
any peculiarity of leaf or of habit ; but, as in the nurseries the most rapid
way of producing saleable plants of this, and all the other species and va-
rieties of Cratæ'gus, is found to be by grafting on the common hawthorn,
very few seedlings are raised, and the varieties in cultivation are only the
three or four following ; —
C. c. 2 coràllina.^ C. coràllina Lodd. Cat. ; the C. pyrifórmis and C. pec-
rinàta of some collections. {Jig. 678. in p. 387.) — The leaves and
the entire plant are, perhaps, rather smaller than in the species ;
the habit of the tree is decidedly more upright and fastigiate ; and
tlie fruit is smaller, long, and of a fine coral red ; whence the name
is probably derived, though, in the first edition of the Hort. Soc.
Catalogue, it is called the red-branched hawthorn. The plants at
Messrs. Loddiges’s, however, exhibit only a slight degree of redness
in the branches of the young wood.
S C. 0. 3 indentata. C. indentàta Lodd. Cat. ; C. geórgica Doug. {fig. 678.
in p. 387.) — T he leaves are smaller, and less lobed, than those of
the species ; the plant is also weaker, o f upright habit, and with a
smooth clear bark. I t is very prolific in flowers and fruit. ^
¥ C. c. 4 máxima Lodd. Cat. C. c. spinósa Godefroy -, C. acerifòlia Hart. ;
C. ? flabellata Hort. — T he leaves are larger than those of any other
variety ; and the fruit is also large. As we have not seen living
plants o f C. flabellàta, but only dried specimens sent from Terenure
and the Humbeque Nursery, we are not absolutely certain th a t C.
flabellàta and C. c. maxima are the same ; but we feel quite certain
th a t they both belong to C. coccínea. We are informed th a t the C.
flabellàta of some nurseries is C. tanacetifòlia ; which certainly
has its leaves more flabellate, or fan-like, than any variety of C.
coccínea.
t 2 C. c. 3 neapolitàna H o rt. jlíéspiliis constantinopolitàna Godefroy.
— Plants were in Messrs. Loddiges’s collection in 1837.
¥ 2. C. GLANDUi.o'sA fV. The glandular Thorn.
Identification. Willd. Sp., 2. p. 1002., not of M ic h x .; P ursh Amer. Sept., 1. p. 337.; Dec. Prod., 2.
p. 627. ; Don’s Mill., 2, p. 599.
Synom/ines. ? C. sanguínea Pall. Fl. Ros. 1. t. 11. ; ? Aíéspilus rotundifòlia Ehrh. Beitr. Z. p. 20. ;
P ÿ ru s glandulòsa Moench ; C. rotundifòlia Booth.
Engravings. ? Pall. F!. Koss., 1. t. H. ; Lod. Bot. Cab., t. 1012; Dend. B rit.,. t. 58. ; our fig . 680.
in p. 388. ; th e plate o fth is species iu Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vi. ; and our fig . 636.
Spec. Char., ùfc. Leaves with the disk obovate-wedge-shaped, angled, glabrous,
glossy. Petioles, stipules,and sepals glanded. F ru it ovat, scarlet;
nuts 4—5 ; flesh hard and dry. (Dec. Prod.) A low tree. North America,
in Canada and on the Alleghany Mountains, and also found on the
Rocky Mountains. Height 12ft. to 15ft. Introduced in 1750. Flowers
white; May and June. F ru it scarlet; ripe in September.
Varieties.
i C .g - 2 succulenfa Fisch., ilYespilus succulenta Booth, has the fruit
larger than th a t of the species, and succulent, juicy, and eatable.
We have seen only one plant o f this variety; b u t we were assured
by the late M. Fischer of Gottingen, tha t there are several in the
botanic garden there, and in various other collections in Germany.
2 C g. 3 subvillòsa, C. subvillòsa Ftsch.,
{¿ur fig. 636., and fig. 681. in p. 388.)
is apparently another variety of the preceding
sort, or, perhaps, of C. coccínea.
It is very distinct in appearance, from
its villous twisted leaves, and stunted
tortuous shoots ; but, from its having
been only three or four years in the
country, very little is known of its habit
of growth, which seems to be rather
more loose than th a t of C. glandulòsa.
There are plants in the Horticultural
Society’s Garden, and in Messrs. Lod- ,
diges’s arboretum.
Differs from the preceding sort in the stipules
andcalvxes being glandular, and in the head of
the tree forming a dense mass of small twigs.
Being a small compact tree, of somewhat conical
or fastigiate habit, and o f comparatively low
growth, and yet very prolific in flowers and Iruit,
it is well adapted for small gardens ; and, being
at the same time full of branches and very spiny, c c "
it is better calculated than many other kinds of American Cratæ gus for forming
l i ' ii.,
635. C. g. subvillosa.
field hedges.
636. C. glandulòsa.
¡ ii. Punctàtoe,
Sect. Char. Leaves not lobed, large, with many nerves. Bark white, or i
coloured. F ru it large, or small.
Ml » 3.Ó. O.C. eUINGlA p u n o t a ' t lA a Ait. The ---------./
àotteà-fruited Thorn.
X _ 1 „nA ofl . Piii-«Vi F l . P,
Memlflcaiion. a I Hort. K e „ „ 2. p. H o n Vind., , . and 28. ; P nrsh F l. Anier. Sept., 1.
p . 3 3 8 . ; D e c . P r o d . , 2. p . 627 . ; Don’sM ill.,2 . p . - m . _ --------
i n ® ” S > g s ^ '682. and 683, in p. 389. ; th e plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit.,
vol. vi. ; a n d o u r fig. 637. K K _¿s