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The RASPBERRY SHRUB. 



THE Rafpberry (Rulus Idzus), is 

 an under- fhrubby plants four or 

 five feet high, a fpecics of the family of 

 RubuS) or bramble, and produces agree- 

 able eatable fruit of the baccaceous or 

 berry kind, in eftirnation both as a defert 

 fruit to eat raw, and for making tarts a 

 fauces, rafpberry jam, and other culina- 

 ry preparations, and therefore highly de- 

 mands culture m every garden : it be- 

 longs to the clafs and order Icofandria 

 folygynia, flowers having twenty or more 

 ftamina, and many ftyles. 



There is but one fpecles of the com- 

 mon fruit-bearing Rafpberry, furnifhing 

 fiveral varieties, and according to the 



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