Several years ago a friend who was born in England and grew some forty varieties of roses, etc, gave me what he called a buckthorn. It did not do well, and died in a few years. But meantime I had grafted and budded it in our native thorn, common in low pasture fields. The way it has grown and blossomed shows it well adapted to it. The bud was put in midway on a limb, where it is hard to bud the peach. Still it grew finely. The flowers are double, rose color, striped and variegated, and are much admired.