. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. DOTTED THORN. Cratcegus punctata Fig .88. Mature leaves and fruit; branchlet in late Large trunk, Black River valley, N. Y. Handbook of Trees of the Xortkerx States axd ( The Dotted Thorn is one of the most abun-dant and widely distributed of the Thorns,their picturesque flattened tops dotting the dryslopes and pasture-lands of almost every land-scape of the northern Atlantic states. Thetree is sometimes 25 or 30 ft. in height, usuallywith rigid horizontal branches which
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. DOTTED THORN. Cratcegus punctata Fig .88. Mature leaves and fruit; branchlet in late Large trunk, Black River valley, N. Y. Handbook of Trees of the Xortkerx States axd ( The Dotted Thorn is one of the most abun-dant and widely distributed of the Thorns,their picturesque flattened tops dotting the dryslopes and pasture-lands of almost every land-scape of the northern Atlantic states. Thetree is sometimes 25 or 30 ft. in height, usuallywith rigid horizontal branches which form apeculiarly flat top, and short ridged trunk 12-13in. in diameter. The branches and trunk usu-ally bristle with an armament of rigid sharpthorns to a remarkable degree, and on accountof these the sagacious shrike or butcher-bird,which abounds in our northern fields, almostinvariably chooses a tree of this kind in whichto build its nest. Here effectually barricadedagainst cats and children it nests and rears itsyoung in perfect safety, and vipon the thornsit finds places to impale its prey. The DottedThorn is a handsome tree when in fl
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