Blackberries. 



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type have a strong tendency to produce a few later fruits on the tips 

 of the new growth. These late fniits often ripen as late as the first 

 week in September. 



III. Leafy-cluster hlacTcherries {Rubiis villosvs, var. frondosiis, 

 Torr). — These are dwarf, strict bushes, generally growing on dryish 



101.— Kittatinny. Natural size. 



soils, bearing the flowers in short leafy clusters (Fig. 99), the leaflets 

 small and firm, more or less wrinkled, light- colored, persisting long 

 in the fall, smooth or nearly so when full grown, narrow, coarsely- 

 toothed. Fruit early, roundish, medium to small, the grains large 

 and rather loose. This is a very leafy plant, and is no doubt a dis- 

 tinct species from the common blackberry. In cultivation, it is 

 known in the Early Harvest and Brunton's Early. 



