Hawthorn. Fifty species and many varieties. Chiefly hardy deciduous low trees. Seeds, buds, or grafts.

Dr. Lindley gives the following list of the most showy kinds.

C. Aronia

Most showy species of all in the autumn; very large bright yellow fruit in great abundance.

C. Tenacetifolia

Upright growing, finely cut leaves, the largest fruit of all, yellow.

C. Odoratissima

A spreading tree; downy leaves, numerous large bright red fruit in the autumn.

C. Orientalis

Large dark red fruit.

C. Coccinia

Very showy; large and numerous bunches of bright red fruit in the autumn.

C. Glandulosa

Dense bush, and is ornamental in the autumn, covered with abundance of rather large red fruit.

C. Punctata

Three varieties, one with red fruit, another with yellow, and a third with an upright or fastigiatc habit of growth.

C. Oliveriana

Small, deeply cut, woolly leaves, and small black fruit, numerous and ornamental in the autumn.

C. Douglasii

Various shaped leaves and black fruit, which ripen early in the autumn.

C. Nigra

Strong growing, with black fruit and deeply divided leaves, flowering rather early.

C. Heterophylla

Beautiful species, profusion of flowers in the spring, and numerous small red fruit in the autumn.

C. Macracantha

With immense spines and small shining yellowish-red fruit, produced in large bunches early in the autumn.

C. Pyrifolia

Free flowering kind, with small, but very numerous yellowish-red fruit, which ripen very late in the autumn.

C. Crus-Galli

Bright shining green leaves, and numerous bunches of dark-red fruit, which ripen very late in the autumn. The most desirable is the variety called sallicifolia, which has horizontal branches, forming a flat table-shaped head.

C. Prunifolia

A close bush, rather large shining leaves, and numerous bunches of dark-red fruit, which ripen late in the autumn.

C. Flava

Small greenish-yellow fruit late in the autumn.

C. Virginiana

A dwarf kind, with numerous green fruit, it retains its fruit nearly all the winter.

C. Cordata

The latest in flower, and bears the smallest fruit; it has bright shining angular leaves, and bright red berries.

C. Oxycantha Rosea Superba

The most brilliant of all when in flower, it bears bright crimson blossoms in May. The double variety of it has also flowers, nearly as intense in colour, and quite double.