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The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation

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The Scarlet Haw (Crataegus arnoldiana) This tree is vigorous in habit; its new growth is downy. Even the ripe fruits are velvety. The flowers come out in May after the broad ovate leaves are spread. The Parsley Haw (Crataegus apiifolia) The deeply cut leaves distinguish this tree.
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Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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THE SCARLET HAW (Cratcegus Arnoldiana) This tree is vigorous in habit; its new growth is downy.Even the ripe fruits are velvety. The flowers come outIB May after the broad, ovate leaves are spread THE PARSLEY HAW (Cratagus apiijolia)The deeply cut leaves distinguish this tree The Hawthorns winter, making up in quantity what it lacks in size. Rare in theEast and North, yet it is hardy in the Arnold Arboretum. V. PruinoS/E Scarlet Haw (C. pruinosa, K. Koch.)—Small tree, 15 to20 feet high, spreading irregular head of horizontal limbs. Thornsnumerous, stout, straight, 1 to ih inches long. Bark grey, thin,in loose scales. Wood hard, heavy, close grained. Buds small,blunt, scaly. Leaves ovate or elliptical, acute, lobed and serrate,except on entire base; dark blue-green, smooth, leathery, palerbeneath; 1 to i^ inches long, on slender petioles; autumn colourorange. Flowers, May, white, 1 inch broad, in few-floweredcorymbs, stems long smooth; stamens 20, with long, rose-colouredanthers; sty

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