STRAWBERRY-RASPBERRY 



CLOUDBERRY 



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comes cherry-red, The flavor is somewhat 

 intermediate between that of the red and 

 that of the black raspberries, but rather 

 mawkish for most palates. Unfortunately, the 

 canes are tender to cold and die down in the 

 winters of the northern United States. The 

 plants also are too unproductive for a com- 



237. Wineberry. (XV 2 ) 



mercial raspberry. The berries are handsome 

 and, owing to their covering, suffer but little 

 from insects and fungi. The wineberry is hardly 

 worth growing for fruit, but is a handsome 

 ornamental and may prove desirable as a 

 parent in the production of hybrid brambles. 



Strawberry-raspberry. 



Another novelty among the many edible 

 raspberries from the Orient is the strawberry- 

 raspberry, R. illecebrosus, Focke. Thu plant 

 has for many years been grown in greenhouses 

 for its flowers, but was reintroduced from 

 Japan a few years ago for its fruits. The ber- 

 ries are so sour and bitter as to be almost 

 unpalatable to eat out of hand, but when 

 cooked the flavor is pleasant, reminding one 

 of a mixture of strawberries and raspberries. 

 The cooked product is a handsome garnet-red 

 quite suitable for coloring sirup. In northern 

 United States, the plant is herbaceous, freezing 

 to the ground each winter, but throwing up 

 a mat of bright-colored plants each spring. 

 The plant is a dwarf, prickly, glabrous, semi- 

 herbaceous bramble with brightly colored 

 pinnate leaves and large, white, sweet-scented 

 flowers. The berries are bright scarlet, borne 



singly or in clusters of two or three, and 

 almost continuously throughout the season. The 

 mat of plants is so dense that weeds are 

 smothered. With its continuous bloom and 

 fruit, the strawberry-raspberry is a most at- 

 tractive ornamental, with some value for its 

 edible fruits. R. roscefolius, Smith, is so sim- 

 ilar as to pass under the same common name. 



Mayberry. 



Under the name Japanese Golden mayberry, 

 a hybrid between the Cuthbert red raspberry 

 and R. palmatus, Thunb. was introduced by 

 Luther Burbank. The plant is described as 

 attaining a height of six to eight feet, and as 

 bearing many large white blossoms which are 

 followed by large, sweet, glossy, golden semi- 

 transparent berries, ripening in advance of 

 the strawberry. Introduced some years ago, 

 the mayberry seems not to have grown in 

 favor, as it is now seldom to be found. 



Golden Evergreen raspberry. 



This is a yellow-fruited species, R. ellipticus, 

 Smith, from the Himalayas. It is a tall, up- 

 right plant, densely beset with reddish-brown 

 hairs, bearing yellow fruits the size of the 

 common raspberry, which are said to be of 

 very good quality. The species belongs in 

 the far south, being naturalized in Jamaica, 

 and is said to be the only raspberry under 

 cultivation in southern Florida. It is a hand- 

 some ornamental, recommended as a good 

 covering for pergolas in southern climates. 



Some ten or twelve other known species of 

 raspberries from eastern and central Asia pro- 

 duce edible fruits. Undoubtedly others will 

 be discovered and from time to time intro- 

 duced for cultivation or for hybridization with 

 raspberries now under cultivation. 



Little-known American Raspberries 



Several American raspberries other than the 

 major species already discussed produce edible 

 fruits, and may be found under cultivation 

 as ornamentals or for their fruits. Hybridizers 

 are making use of all of them with the hope 

 of increasing their value as food-producing 

 plants. 



Cloudberry. 



One of the fruits of high northern and arctic 

 regions, but reaching as far south as the north- 

 ern states of the Union, is R. Chamcemorus, 

 Linn., which passes under various common 

 names; as, cloudberry, bakeberry, yellow 

 berry, salmonberry, and molka. It is an her- 

 baceous, creeping plant, bearing large white 

 flowers in solitary terminal peduncles. The 

 fruits are composed of a few large globular 

 drupelets, red or yellow, and are much prized 

 as a food by the inhabitants of northern re- 

 gions and are gathered in large quantities. 

 The cloudberry can be grown in the northern 

 states in peat-bogs, cool places, and rock- 

 gardens. 



