2 1 6 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



inches. In the axils of the upper leaves, mostly ternate, 

 of the vertical branches, come insignificant greenish-white 

 flowers, the aggregate forming little racemose clusters. 

 The Rock Bramble grows in woods and stony ravines, 

 also upon the stony banks of streams. It begins with 

 South Wales, extends up the margin of the western 

 counties to the northern ones, where it becomes common, 

 and occurs also in Ireland and in Scotland. 



THE ARCTIC RASPBERRY (Rubus arcticus). 



LINNAEUS, in his fascinating first venture, the Flora Lap- 

 ponica, in which he narrates all particulars connected 

 with his celebrated northern tour, 1732, tells us that when 

 sinking with hunger and fatigue his strength was recruited 

 by the nectareous juice of the berries of the arctic rasp- 

 berry. The cranberry may rival this plant in delicacy 

 of leaf and blossom, but the fruit is, without compare, 

 the very choicest produced in Scandinavia. Not that it 

 actually needs an arctic latitude. It thrives at Kew and 

 in Warwickshire supplying yet another illustration of the 

 wonderful constitutional elasticity which kind Nature has 

 bestowed upon the majority of her children and now 

 and then has even ripened fruit in the Botanical Garden 

 at Hull. There would seem to be no difficulty in the 

 cultivation : upon a rockery the pretty flowers come out 

 freely, and give the idea of a miniature sweet-brier. It 



