RED HAW (Cratagus Holmesiana, Ashe). N to 30 feet. Tall tree with open, irregular head, or compact, with stout branches. Thorns few, to 2 inches long, thick, mostly straight, brown. Bark pale gray or nearly white, scaly. Leaves ovate, serrate, irregular lobed above middle, nearly smooth, yellow-green, 11 to 2 inches long with long stems and strong ribs. Flowers May, cup-shaped, in loose clusters; stamens 5 to 8, with large purplish anthers; styles 3, with ring of hairs around base. Fruit ripe in September, soon falling,
crimson, oblong, to a inch long, with reddish, incurving calyx lobes; flesh mealy, acid, not pleasant to taste; nutlets 3, distinctly ridged. Dist.: Montreal to southern Ontario, coast of Maine to western half of Massachusetts, Rhode Is land, western New York, and eastern Pennsylvania. Laigest hawthorn in New England. Fine ornamental tree.