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five, ovate, pointed, coarsely serrate, whitened under- 

 neath ; fruit purple or black, occasionally yellowish white. 

 A variable species. 



Id IdiCUSt European Raspberry. Stems erect, woody, 

 prickles, slender, straight ; leaves trifoliate ; leaflets ovate, 

 deeply serrate, whitish tomentose beneath, green above ; 

 flowers white ; fruit red or yellowish white ; root perennial, 

 creeping, producing numerous suckers. Common garden 

 Raspberry. Native of various portions of Europe, and 

 probably of Asia. It derived the name Idseus from Mount 

 Ida this name being given it by the Greeks. 



There are many other species of the Raspberry, natives 

 of different portions of the world. In fact, there is 

 scarcely a country with which we have any communi- 

 cation that does not possess one or more species. Many 

 of these have been introduced, but so far none have 

 proved of sufficient value to be worthy of cultivation. 



The M. Japonicus, which was disseminated a few years 

 since from the experimental garden at Washington, was 

 supposed at the time to be of value, but it proved to be 

 too tender for open air culture at the North, and we have 

 no accounts of it from the South. The Salmon-berry of 

 the N. W. Coast, JR. maGropetalus, has been introduced 

 into cultivation in California, and some few plants have 

 been brought East during the present winter, and we 

 shall probably soon know if it be adapted to our climate. 



The R. IdcBus has given thus far all the varieties from 

 abroad worthy of cultivation. But from our native spe- 

 cies, Rubus strigosus and R. occidentalis^ a number of 

 very valuable varieties have been produced. 



HISTORY. 



Pliny, the elder, who is supposed to have written his 

 natural history about the year 45, mentions the Raspberry 

 as one of the wild brambles, which the Greeks called 



