Hawthorne Abendsen

Hawthorn : The Symbol of ‘good hope’ in THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS because it shows winter is over and spring is at hand. 

Athenian girls used crown themselves with hawthorn flowers at weddings and the marriage torch was made of hawthorn. 

The Romans considered it a charm against sorcery and placed leaves of it on the cradles of new-born infants. 

The hawthorn was chosen by Henry VII [ Henry Tudor ] as his device because Richard III’s crown was recovered from a hawthorn bush at Bosworth. 

‘Haw’ here is the Old English haga, ‘hedge’. See also [ Donna / Doc ] HAYWARD.