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long-cluster blackberries, Taylor and Ancient Briton, the short 

 cluster blackberries, Snyder, Kittatinny, Erie, etc., and the leafy- 

 cluster blackberries. Early Harvest, etc. 



Forms of the black dewberry have given us the Lucretia and 

 the Bartel, while the intermediate strain between the high-bush 

 and the black dewberry, usually known as R. heterophylhis 

 Willd, has produced the Wilson, Wilson Jr., and Rathburn. 

 While much has been done in improving our native blackberries 

 and raspberries, much more remains to be accomplished, for 

 although the cultivated forms are productive and larger than the 

 wild fruit, still they lack flavor and have much larger seeds. 



THE ROSES. ROSA. 



Everyone recognizes a rose-bush, even when in the leafless 

 stage, but few — and trained botanists are not always reckoned 

 among these few — can distinguish all of our native species 

 at sight. While this is not always of primary importance, 

 it is worth while with so conspicuous and favorite a flower to 

 know how many kinds may be expected in one's neighborhood, 

 somewhat of their season and natural habitat, whether the par- 

 ticular plant which is under survey is a June rose like the cinna- 

 mon or perchance may be of midsummer habit like the swamp 

 rose, whether to be sought by the water side as the swamp rose, or 

 on the dry ridges as the pasture rose, and whether native like 

 the smooth rose or of European ancestry like the sweetbrier. 

 Bearing in mind these characteristics and the others mentioned 

 below we may easily add to the charm of our acquaintance with 

 the wayside rose, the pleasure in most cases of calling it by its 

 own proper name. 



