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doubly serrate; peduncle rather stout, raising the panicle nearly as 

 high as the leaves; panicle 2-4 inches long, 12-24-flowered (usually 

 about 15-flowered); lower bracts broad, oval; sepals lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, the alternating bractlets about the same length; 

 petals orbicular, or oval, 4-16 to 5-16 inches long, including a short 

 claw; stamens numerous and well developed; fruit bright crimson, 

 broad ovoid to round oblong, % inch long; moderately firm; quality, 

 medium; season medium. 



"Origin, Connecticut, 1870. 



"Probably not excelled by any variety for its productiveness on all 

 sorts of soils and with every kind of treatment. Extensively grown." 



"Cuthbert Raspberry. Pl&nt tall, stout, slightly glaucous, prickles 

 recurved, few, weak, seldom more than one mm. long; leaves, some- 

 what wrinkled, light green above, light green to glaucous green 

 below, under a lens more or less tomcntose; leaflets large, doubly 

 serrate-dentate, often recurved, those on stout shoots' mostly five, 

 sessile, puckered at the base, those of bearing branches three, stipules 

 45 mm. long, erect, terete, 7-10 of the upper leaves bearing 1-4 

 flowers, light red on the upper side, pedicles 1.5-2.5 cm. long (the 

 whole panicle 20-30 cm. long), smooth or with minute prickles, 

 bractlets 1-2 mm. long; calyx destitute of prickles, petals narrowly 

 oval or obovate, 4-5 mm. long, including the very short claw; pistils 

 clothed with minute reddish pubescence; fruit ovoid-conic, 6-8 mm. 

 long; base of calyx 3-5 mm. long; styles, when dead, brown, bent, 

 2.5 mm. long; torus conical, 8 mm. long, fruit red, very large and 

 firm, productive and vigorous, quality good, rather hardy, season 

 medium. 



"Origin, New Jersey or New York, 1870." 



A glossary of some of the leading terms used in describing fruits 

 may be useful to the novice. Of general terms, the following may be 

 mentioned: Phytography, the describing of plants; taxonomy, the 

 science or practice of classification; terminology, the knowledge of the 

 terms or technical words used in any subject; nomenclature, the 

 knowledge of the names used to designate any class of objects. 



Leading terms used to designate the shape of fruits are as fol- 

 lows: Conical, length equal to or greater than the breadth and the 

 upper shoulders narrowed (Fig. 115); ovate, broader than the conical 

 (Fig. 116); obovate, inversely ovate (larger at the apex); oblong, 

 length equal to or greater than the breadth, and sides parallel or very 

 nearly so; oblate, distinctly flattened endwise (Fig. 117); lop-sided 

 (Fig. 118). Combinations of these terms with themselves (Fig. 119), 



