upposed
| | |to flower at Christmas,
| | |but rarely does so owing to
| | |frost. This is the Thorn
| | |which is associated with
| | |the famous legend.
| | |*Semperflorens is a good
| | |variety, a low-growing
| | |tree, which flowers for a
| | |much longer period than the
| | |other Thorns. Stricta makes
| | |a dense upright-growing
| | |tree, 30 feet or more high;
| | |it grows rapidly, and when
| | |in flower is strikingly
| | |distinct in appearance.
| | |
C. oxyacanthoides |...... |...... |This is distinguished from
(sub-species) | | |C. monogyna by the styles
| | |and seeds as stated above;
| | |and also by the larger
| | |leaves, flowers, and fruit.
| | |All the double-flowered
| | |Thorns belong to this
| | |section. Atrofusca, a
| | |large, shapely tree, of
| | |weeping growth; the flowers
| | |large, pure white, and the
| | |fruits fair sized and
| | |abundantly produced.
| | |*Flore-pleno albo, the
| | |double white Thorn, with
| | |purest white flowers. This,
| | |like the other double
| | |Thorns, rarely fruits.