The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . r & Barry, at Rochester, NewYork, has been for years the wonder and admiration of visitorsand the pride of its owners. In the woods about Rochester thisspecies is quite common. It is counted by Professor Sargentone of the largest and most beautiful hawthorns in the NorthernStates. VIII. Flabellatte Red Haw (C. Holmesiana, Ashe.)—Tall tree, 20 to 30 feethigh, v/ith stout ascending branches; head irregular and open, orcompact. Thorns thick, ij to 2 inches long, scattered far
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . r & Barry, at Rochester, NewYork, has been for years the wonder and admiration of visitorsand the pride of its owners. In the woods about Rochester thisspecies is quite common. It is counted by Professor Sargentone of the largest and most beautiful hawthorns in the NorthernStates. VIII. Flabellatte Red Haw (C. Holmesiana, Ashe.)—Tall tree, 20 to 30 feethigh, v/ith stout ascending branches; head irregular and open, orcompact. Thorns thick, ij to 2 inches long, scattered far grey or nearly white, scaly. Leaves oval or ovate, acute oracuminate, sharply lobed and doubly serrate; thick and firm,nearly smooth, distinctly yellow-green at maturity, ij to 2 incheslong, with strong midribs and long petioles. Flowers, May,cup shaped, £ to f inch across, in loose corymbs; stamens 5 to 8,anthers large, deep reddish purple. Fruits September, fallingsoon, crimson, oblong, i to § inch long, with reddish, incurvedcalyx lobes; nutlets 3, distinctly ridged, flesh mealy, acid, dis- 312. THE SCARLET HAW (Cratxgus coccinea) This is one of the old, well-known, ornamentalthorns which flowers copiously in early May andripens its large red fruits in late August. Unfor-tunately, they ^on fall THE RED HAW {Crataegus mollis) This handsome thorn tree is hoary in spring with white, matted hairsupon its new shoots. One flower cluster is shown below. Each flowerhas 20 pale yellow stamens
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