. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i9°5- The American Florist. 325. CRAT^GUS ELLWANGERIANA. (Thu Si-urlft H:i\v.) Desirable American Hawthorns. PART I. Apropos of our notes in the American Florist of February 11, on the recent discovery of so many new American hawthorns, the question may .be raised how they are to be obtained by any persons who should want to plant them? In the meantime so far as we know the Arnold Arboretum is the only place where the new species of crata!gus are being systematically prop- agated, and we believe that Professor Sar
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i9°5- The American Florist. 325. CRAT^GUS ELLWANGERIANA. (Thu Si-urlft H:i\v.) Desirable American Hawthorns. PART I. Apropos of our notes in the American Florist of February 11, on the recent discovery of so many new American hawthorns, the question may .be raised how they are to be obtained by any persons who should want to plant them? In the meantime so far as we know the Arnold Arboretum is the only place where the new species of crata!gus are being systematically prop- agated, and we believe that Professor Sargent is distributing them as soon as they are available, to other arboreta, and some of the most progressive and influential nurseries throughout the world. Wo notice that in the latest catalogue of the Lemoines, of Nancy, France, they have twenty of the new species of Crataegus listed. In the cata- logue of the Vilmorin Fruiticetum, of Prance, issued, there are one hundred and fifty of the new Ameri- can cratrcgus included. The indications are that before long, many of the best new ornamental hawthorns will be offered by the leading nurserymen of the world. We will give brief descriptions ot some of the most desirable hawthorns of which we have personal knowledge. Cratajgus Ellwangeriana, Sargent, a species that belongs to the molles sec- tion, in which all the species are char- acterized by large, handsome, showy fruit more or less edible; is quite com- mon in Western New York, and Pro- fessor Sargent lately informs me that it appears to be common in Eastern Penn- sylvania. It forms a handsome treo twenty-five or more feet in height, with a trunk a foot in diameter, and branch- ing six to seven feet above the ground into a spreading symmetrical hea'l twenty-five to thirty feet in diameter. The flowers, with ten stamened rose colored anthers, are borne on large, densely pubescent corymbs, and come into bloom about May 20. The droop- ing clusters of crimson, lustrous
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