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from the eastern species, and Card thinks it a variety. 

 Its chief marks are shorter and more hooked prickles, 

 more coarsely toothed leaves, and a yellowish red fruit 

 which has a white bloom. It has been recommended 

 for cultivation for its fruit, but no named varieties have 

 yet appeared. Wickson speaks of it as having "a 

 yellowish red fruit, rather large, with a white bloom, 

 and agreeable flavor." Shinn says that it "occasionally 

 carries a fair crop of fruit, but one may often search 

 a whole acre of thimbleberry bushes in the season with- 

 out obtaining a double handful." 



Bubus neglectus, Peck. (22nd Rep. Regents N. Y. 

 State Univ. 53, 1869.) Habit various, but the stems in 

 typical forms long and rooting from the tip ; stems 

 glaucous, usually more or less armed with prickles, 

 often bristly also ; inflorescence racemose-cymose, the 

 peduncles short and usually prickly, mostly stiff, the 

 upper ones erect or ascending, simple or nearly so 

 above but unequally branched below, some of them 

 aggregated above ; fruit varying from purple -black to 

 bright purple or even yellowish. Among cultivated 

 sorts, the Shaffer (Fig. 56) may be considered the type 

 of the species. A glance at the illustration will show 

 the aggregated character of the fruit cluster at its 

 apex and the gradual tailing out of the cluster at 

 the base. The lowest branches in the cluster are apt 

 to give imperfect fruit. There are all gradations, 

 from the heavy-topped cluster of the Cuthbert to the 

 loose cluster of the Caroline, but the ragged cluster 

 is usually characteristic of Bub us nrglectmt. 



Bub-iis strigosus, Michaux (Red Raspberry). (Fig. 

 57.) Stems, at least in the wild plant, densely clothed 

 with straight and weak bristles, usually brown or 



