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som very similar to a wild rose ; unfortunately, the 

 flower at maturity turns a homely, pale magenta, but 

 never purple. The fruit of this shrubby plant is like 

 a flat raspberry, with little or no flavor ; 

 the long stems are hairy-bristly, not 

 thorny. 



The wild red raspberry (Ru- 

 ~bus strigosus] is thickly distrib- 

 uted over the country from 

 Labrador southward to New 

 Jersey and the mountains of 

 North Carolina, and westward 

 to Minnesota and Missouri. It 

 occupies the roadsides in 

 some localities in New York 

 and New England for 

 miles together ; and in 

 many of the old pasture 

 lands of the White Moun- 

 tain region it grows so lux- 

 uriantly, together with the 



high-bush blackberry, that it forms almost impassable 

 thickets. The thorny canes, however, are not nearly 

 so murderous as those of the blackberry, and if one is 

 not afraid of a few scratches, a day's " raspberrying " 

 in July, when the season is good, will result in a 

 heaping eight-quart pail of fruit which, in my esti- 



Wild Eed Easpberry. 



