TREES WITH FINE FRUITS 85 



ROSA. Beauty at fruiting time is an almost 

 proverbial attribute of the Roses. None is more 

 beautiful than our native Dog Rose (R. canind). 

 Though in many an English hedgerow, an out- 

 of-the-way corner in many a garden might be given 

 up to the Dog Rose and its varieties for the sake 

 of their wealth of scarlet hips in autumn. R. 

 tomentosa and R. mollis are other red-fruited natives 

 of Britain. All the members of the Scotch Rose 

 group (pimpinellifolia) have black fruits. Of exotic 

 species, one of the most valuable is R. rugosa; its 

 flat, orange-shaped hips are so abundant and brightly 

 coloured that they make a brilliant picture. R. micro- 

 phylla has yellow prickly fruits, whilst those of R. 

 macrophylla are pear-shaped and scarlet. The deep- 

 crimson hips of R. pomijera, covered with bristly 

 hairs like large gooseberries, are as remarkable as 

 any. Some of the American species, although the 

 fruits are usually small, are handsome, such as R. 

 nutkana and R. Carolina. The elongated, pear-shaped 

 fruits of R. alpina and its variety pyrenaica are bright 

 red, and have a pleasant, resinous odour when rubbed. 



RAPHIOLEPIS JAPONICA, with its clusters of small, 

 round black berries, should be planted at least against 

 a wall ; it is a rather slow-growing evergreen shrub 

 with strawberry-like flowers. 



RHAPHITHAMNUS CYANOCARPUS can only be grown 

 outside against a wall, or in Cornwall or similar 

 localities, but where it will succeed it is well worth 

 growing, not only for its pale-blue flowers, but for 

 the bright-blue fruits that follow them 



