The illustrator of this plate, C. E. Faxon, seems to have gone all out to show details of the growth habit of this particular hawthorn. I think it would take seven or eight photos, minimum, to capture them all. I wonder why he lavished more detail on this one than on other hawthorns in this series of drawings. I found a little information about him online, and see that his illustration art continues to sell to this day.
