476 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Bubus Macraei, Asa Gray. 



Hawaia, high up on the mountains. The " Akala." The fruit 

 attains a diameter of nearly 2 inches, is dark-red, very juicy, and 

 although slightly bitter quite pleasant to the taste [Dr. Hillebrand]. 

 Would likely improve under cultivation. 



Bubus macropetalus, Douglas. 



Oregon. A Blackberry-shrub with fruits juicy and sweeter than 

 those of R. villosus [Nuttall]. This species is mentioned by Torrey 

 and Gray as Californian, but does not occur under the above name 

 in Brewer and Watson's work. Foliage evergreen. 



Bubus Moluccanus, Linne.* 



India continental as well as insular, there ascending to 7,000 feet, 

 advancing southward through New Guinea and East-Australia to 

 Gippsland, northward to China and eastward to the Philippine- 

 Islands and Fiji. A very tall and variable species. Fruit red. A 

 variety, R. reticulatus (Wallich), ascends the Indian mountains to 



, 10,000 feet [Sir J. Hooker], and is remarkable for its large fruits 

 The plant proved hardy at Christiania. It ripens in warm clime, 

 its fruits all the year round. 



Bubus nutans, Wallich. 



Himalayan mountains, ascending to about 10,000 feet ; growing 

 on the ground like strawberry-plants, yielding fruits of very pleasant 

 subacid taste [Aitchison], but not of large size [J. Hooker]. A 

 species easily spreading and probably improvable by culture. 



Bubus Nutkanus, Mocino. 



The Salmon-berry of Alaska. A Raspberry-bush with large 

 pleasantly flavoured and sweet fruits [Professor Brewer]. Not 

 prickly. It dies down to the root annually. Seeds underground 

 may rest for fully 15 years and yet be able to germinate [Dr. W. 

 O. Focke]. 



Bubus occidentalis, Linn<$.* 



The " Black Cap " - Raspberry or " Thimbleberry " - bush. North- 

 America. A species with woody stems and nice fruits, the latter 

 with a glaucous bloom, well flavored and large ; it ripens early. To 

 this bears near affinity R. leucodermis (Douglas) frt>m California, 

 Utah and Arizona ; its fruit is yellowish-red, rather large and of 

 agreeable flavor. 



Bubus odoratus, Cornuti. 



North- America. A kind of raspberry-bush. Handsome on account 

 of its large purple flowers. Berries edible. Hardy in Norway to 

 lat. 67 56'. Culture would doubtless enhance the value of the 



