2 1 o Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



dition, and partly to the hedgerows being allowed more 

 freedom of growth than in most agricultural counties, 

 brambles abound and produce very copiously. Many 

 of the poorer inhabitants of the towns, as soon as the 

 fruit is ripe, gain their livelihood for weeks together by 

 collecting it for sale. 



THE CLOUDBERRY (Rubus Chamcemortis ). 



AN inviting little fruit indeed is the Cloudberry, though 

 known to few except the inhabitants of high northern 

 districts. It is met with, in the wild state, upon the lofty 

 moors between Stalybridge and Huddersfield, whence it 

 is occasionally brought to Manchester for sale ; also upon 

 Ingleborough and in North Wales, rapidly increasing in 

 quantity as we penetrate into Scotland, and becoming, 

 in Scandinavia, one of the conspicuous elements of the 

 Flora. It extends also into northern Asia and North 

 America. In order to thrive it requires plenty of moisture, 

 but not in excess, and prefers a peaty soil, though quite 

 able to grow upon the face of a crag, in moist crevices, as 

 upon the Breadalbane mountains. The epithet " Cloud " 

 is generally supposed to refer to its elevated places of 

 growth, as if among the clouds. Perhaps it may be an 

 application of the geographical term preserved in "Thorpe 

 Cloud," one of the two great mountain-sentinels at the 

 entrance to Dovedale; and in "Cloud-end," the celebrated 

 inland promontory in North Staffordshire 



