TREES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves alternate, 3-5 foliate, pinnate, very variable, leaflets ovate or obo- 

 vate, petiolate, coarsely irregularly serrated, acute, glabrous and dark green 

 above, white and downy beneath, midribs and petioles with small hooked 

 prickles ; stipules subulate or linear, inserted short way up stalk ; leaves sub- 

 persistent. 



A deciduous shj'ub ; Stems prickly, bristly, glandularly hirsute, or downy, 

 sometimes sub-erect, often rooting from a callus at extremity, straggling, or 

 prostrate, furrowed, aculeate ; flowering stems biennial, or a few years old ; 

 Buds long, pointed ; scales imbricated, hairy. 



Native of Britain. Irregular, spindle-shaped swellings on stems, 1-7 ins. 

 long, produced by larva^ of a Gall-fly [Diastrophus rubi). 



RASPBERRY, Rubus Idteus. 



Woods, cultivated in gardens. Propagated by suckers and seeds. June — 

 August. 



Floroers white, honeyed, in long pendidous panicled cymes, axillary and 

 terminal, few-flowered ; Calyx somewhat campanulate, 5-lobed, inferior, per- 

 sistent, lobes ovate-lanceolate, tips long ; Petals 5, short, linear-obovate ; 

 Stamens indefinite ; Ovary superior, carpels several, distinct, styles many ; 

 Fruit an etferio of succulent 1 -seeded drupels, on a dry conical receptacle, 

 forming a kind of granulated berry, usually separating from the receptacle 

 when ripe ; red. 



Leaves alternate, 3-5 foliate, often 3 in upper, 5 in lower, leaflets ovate 

 or oblong, 3-5 ins. long, coarsely serrated, acute, light green above, downy 

 beneath ; stipules small, subulate, often adnate half-way up stalk. 



A deciduous shrub, 3-5 ft. ; Stem shrubby, erect, terete, downy, sterile 

 first year, bearing flowers and fruit in second, then dying ; prickles straight 

 and slender ; flowering shoots with curved prickles ; Suckei's freely produced. 



Native of Britain. 



Injurioiis Lisects : — Blossoms, Bud'i, and Fi-uit — Raspberry Beetle {Byturus 



tomentosus) ; Leaves — Weevils {Otiorhynchus); Roots — Weevils {Otiorhynchus); 



Garden Swift Moth {Hcpiahis lupulinus). 



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