WASHINGTON THORN (Crattegus cordata, Ait.). 25 to 40 feet. Vigorous, regular tree with compact head and straight trunk. Thorns numerous, slender, sharp, to 2 inches long. Leaves heart-shaped, coarsely saw-toothed, sharply lobed like a grape or maple, thin, shining, turning dark red in autumn. Length 1 to 3 inches. Flowers in May, many in a corymb, small, stamens 20, anthers red. Fruit in September, in hang ing clusters, persistent, scarlet, small, flattened. Dist.: Vir ginia to Alabama; north to Illinois. Fine hedge and park tree.
Hoc's HAW; POMETTE BLEUE (Cratcegus brachyacantha, Sarg. & Engelm.). 40 to .50 feet. Handsome tree with com
pact, round head of stout gray branches. Thorns numer ous, short, stout, curved. Leaves rhomboidal to lanceolate, lustrous, dark green, 1 to 2 inches long, sometimes irregularly lobed, coarsely saw-toothed, tapering to wedge-shaped base, and short, stout petiole; apex acute or rounded. Flowers small, in broad clusters, petals orange-colored as they fade; stamens 15 to 20. Fruit in August, flattened, globular, bright blue, with pale bloom. Dist.: Arkansas to western Louisiana and to Sabine River Valley, Texas. Only blue *ruited hawthorn. Handsome ornamental tree.