2OO Prints and Fruit- Trees. 



counts them. He who loves unity, and to list the one 

 sweet melody played in many keys, and with variations 

 such as musicians delight in, finds, with the late Mr. 

 Bentham, only five, really and substantially distinct. 

 He who prefers to isolate, and likes a Latin name for 

 every new expression, finds, with Professor Babington, 

 forty-frve. The large, rude, and very thorny ones are the 

 Brambles of their respective countries, and in Britain 

 are the donors of the Blackberry. " Bramble," in the 

 bygones, had a wider signification than it holds to-day, 

 denoting any kind of prickly shrub of the wilderness. 

 In the A.V. of the Old Testament, in the famous 

 apologue of the trees going forth to choose a king, it 

 represents the Hebrew 'atadh, which probably denotes 

 the Christ's thorn, Paliurus Spina-ChristL In the A.V. 

 of the New Testament it represents the Greek /3dro e , 

 which, in addition to certain Rubi, certainly included the 

 dog-rose, for Theocritus says that the flowers of the /Baroe 

 are not to be compared with those of the genuine rose 

 (v. 92, 93). This last is the sense in which the English 

 word is employed by Chaucer : 



" And swete as is the bramble-flower 

 That bereth the red hepe." 



All the brambles are ligneous, the shoots limp and pliant, 

 often many feet in length, the leaves usually ternate 

 or quinate, the flowers white or pink, with many stamens 

 and many pistils, the ripened ovaries of the latter 

 becoming the drupels. A considerable number of the 

 species appear to produce edible and palatable fruit, 



