Show MANY LEGENDS OF THE HAW scarlet berry regarded in some parts of the world as the emblem of hope around little rock the haw Is seen in the full glory of its fruitage in ID woods that are dull and brown its myriad berries greet the eye with a warm red of glowing coals here Is a single tree its spreading branches studded all over with scarlet fruit it makes a picture that seems to be waiting to be transferred to canvas further on are five or six trees standing together their mass showing a wealth of color that a landscape artist might rejoice to reproduce with his art any one of scores of groups of these trees tree would in a public park or large private grounds be a never ending object of admiration lie ile who has not read gt bai hawthorn thorn hedges has not read the literature of 0 england remarks a writer in the little littie rock gazette in that country of 0 beautiful landscapes the haw law blooms in many spots that hat have been beautified by long years of care and it has its legends both pagan and christian it has been regarded as the emblem of hope and its branches are said to I 1 have been carried by the ancient greeks in wedding processions professions process ions and to have bare been used to leek deck the altar ol 01 0 hymen flymen an old superstition in the british isles accounts it unlucky to uproot a liaw haw there has been for centuries a story that this tree was the source of christs crown of thorns tl iorns arid and there is a tradition among french peasants that in its innocence it utters groans and cries on the anniversary of the lay day when he whose birth we celebrate on christmas suffered death upon the cross |