TREES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves alternate, palmately compound, leaflets 3-5, ovate, lobed, doubly 

 serrated, acute, white and tomentose beneath, pubescent or hairy above, 

 1-1 1 in. long, stipules adnate to petioles, lanceolate. 



A deciduous shrub, 10 ft. ; Stems and branches rambling, white with 

 glaucous bloom, giving appearance of having been whitewashed ; prickles 

 very strong, recurved. 



Native of Himalayas; introduced 1818. In gardens is often confused with 

 R. lettcodermis, a North American species. 



DEWBERRY, Rubus coesius. 



Open fields and stony wastes, occasionally hedges and thickets. July, 

 August. Cultivated in peaty soil on sunny rockeries. Propagated by division 

 in October to May. 



Flowers white, in a short corymbose panicle, few flowered ; Sepals narrow, 

 spreading, fused below, tomentose; Fruit an eta?rio of small drupels on a 

 conoid receptacle, large, black, pruinose, acid, adherent to receptacle. 



Leaves alternate, 3-5 foliate, 3-7 ins. long, leaflets l^-3f ins. long, 1-3 ins. 

 wide, terminal on long petioles, ovate or 3-lobed, laterals sub-sessile, ovate 

 or 2-lobed ; unequal and coarsely serrated, prickles on petioles and ribs, pale 

 green. Autumn tint purplish. 



A deciduous shrub, scrambling; Shoots slender, prostrate, seldom arching, 

 glabrous, waxy bloom ; prickles unequal, small. 



Native of Britain. 



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