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six long, widely separated petals. The long thin roots 

 strike straight down into the earth, and therefore when you 

 attempt to pick one of these little plants it usually comes 

 up altogether out of the ground in your hand. The Arctic 

 Raspberry has no prickles. 



Rnbus spectabilis, or Salmonberry, has shrubby branch- 

 ing stems, yellowish shreddy bark, and is copiously armed 

 when young with straight stout prickles. The leaves are 

 usually trifoliolate, the leaflets being deeply toothed, and 

 the pinkish-red flowers are nearly always solitary, large and 

 showy. The Indians are very fond of the sweet juicy red 

 or yellow berries. 



PRICKLY ROSE 



Rosa acicularis. Rose Family 



Stems: densely prickly. Leaves: pinnate ; leaflets large, five to seven, 

 oval-lanceolate, coarsely toothed. Flowers: solitary; petals pink, 

 broadly obovate ; sepals entire, acuminate, persistent and erect upon 

 the fruit. Fruit: globose, glabrous. 



The bush on which this Rose grows is about three feet 

 high and bears lovely, fragrant, pale pink flowers. The 

 leaves are large and very dark green, and the stems are cov- 

 ered with many tiny, fine, straight prickles. All the wild 

 Roses display a preference for the number five, having five 

 petals and five sepals. 



Xo flower in the world has been so famous in poetry and 

 song as the Rose. Its beauty and fragrance have won for it 

 an honoured place in the annals of history, in classic lore, 

 and in the glowing pages of romance. 



" Was ever blossom lovelier than the rose ? " 



Surely not. Xor can we agree with Juliet when she says: 



