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year, beside the fruiting stems, gracefully curved 

 leafy shoots, which will be the fruit-bearing por- 

 tion of next year's growth. The Raspberry has 

 been generally cultivated. 



In its native haunts it is found drooping over 

 rocks, growing in clumps about decaying stumps 

 or trees and in fence rows. 



BLACKBERRIES 



The Blackberry group seems to be especially 

 difficult of exact classification. L. H. Bailey, in 

 his book on " The Evolution of our Native 

 Fruits," names certain varieties which are recog- 

 nizable even by a non-expert, and I have de- 

 parted somewhat from Britton and Brown's 

 classification to adopt Bailey's more recent 

 nomenclature and divisions. 



He separates, first, the Blackberries from the 

 Trailing Blackberries, or Dewberries. 



The Dewberries are distinguished by their 

 trailing habit of growth, their custom of rooting 

 from the tips, and by the few scattered flowers 

 in the flower cluster, the central one of which 

 blossoms first. 



The Blackberry fruit, in general, is a collec- 



