10 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
flowers, which hails from North America. And the last 
of these minute Brambles—which it seems almost an 
insult to one’s intelligence to think of as shrubs—is our 
own native, Rubus Chamaemorus. The Cloudberry dwells 
in great colonies on all the high moors of Northern 
England, Scotland and Scandinavia, hardly descending or 
bearing any descent below two thousand feet. It abounds 
on the saddle of Ingleborough, and again immediately 
below the precipitous western face, but I have never yet 
made any success with it in my garden, short as it must 
find the journey thither. It has lived several seasons, 
indeed, but rarely flowered, and never fruited. And 
the fruit is its great attraction. The plant is about 
six inches in height, with two or three rounded leaves, 
Black-currant-like, thick and solid. ‘The big white flower 
stands solitary at the top of the stem, staring upwards. 
And there, in time, forms the fruit, ripening about 
August—an enormous raspberry of fewer and larger 
carpels, russet-red at first, then ripening to a soft, golden 
amber—when its taste has the sparkling acidity of the 
Pomegranate. Unfortunately the grouse so share my 
love for its juices that it is very rarely, on Ingleborough, 
that I have enjoyed the Cloudberry ; and I have never 
been permitted that Enough which is so fallaciously 
described as being as good as a feast. 
Of big brambles there are many—vast invasive weeds 
for the most part, which must be banned by all who do 
not possess unlimited acreage of wilderness. Rubus leuco- 
dermis is handsome—tall, with white-washed stems; the 
new flagelliformis has whip-cord shoots of eight or ten 
feet ; hypargyrus | only have in seedlings ; nutkanus and 
biflorus are magnificent plants for the wild garden, but 
cannot be allowed in any choice territory. ‘They are 
much alike, tall, dense growers, fearfully rampant, with 
big, green currant-like leaves, and very big flowers, which 
