FRUITS 



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Fig. 97. — European Raspberry (Rubus icIcBUs, Rose Family, Rosacea). 

 1, flowering branch and leaves. 2, flower cut vertically. 3, fruit. 4, 

 floral diagram. (Wossidlo.) — An erect, prickly .shrub; leaflets whitish 

 beneath; flowers white; fruit dark red, yellow, or whiti.-sh. Thi.s species 

 together with our wild red raspberry (/?. titrigosus) which is closely 

 similar to it, have produced our cultivated varieties. 



take account of them. Nevertheless their importance as an 

 aid to digestion is beUeved to be far from insignificant. As 

 the fruit ripens, the various flavors and acids, and. most of 

 the attractive pigments, arise as by-products. 



39. Miscellaneous food-products. Under this head we 

 must consider the products of certain plants which ck) not 

 properly belong to any of the foregoing groups. Thus in the 

 common garden rhubarb or pie-plant (Fig. 112) the part 

 commonly used is the leafstalk, just as in celery; but it can 

 hardly be called a vegetable, for it is used quite like a fruit 



