CHAP. II. DESSERT FRUITS. 249 



Crataegus Layi. 



The name of a species of Hawthorn, several plants of which 

 were introduced by Mr. Fortune from China in 1854 ; desirable, 

 he said, on account of the fine preserve that is made of the fruit. 

 The plants were, however, seemingly unsuited to the climate, 

 for all have perished. 



ROSACES. 

 Rubus Id se us. 



RASPBERRY. 



Dr. Spry states, in his * Plants for India/ that " some red 

 Easpberry -trees at a garden belonging to a private Englishman 

 in Calcutta produced ripe full-sized fruit in 1840." As the 

 scientific name of this Kaspberry is not mentioned, it is unknown 

 whether or not it was the Eubus Idaeus, the common Easpberry 

 of Europe. I question whether this has ever been, or can be, 

 grown in the plains of India. 



Rubus rosaefolius. 



MAURITIUS RASPBERRY. 



This plant, a variety of which produces double white flowers, 

 very like Eoses, common in all gardens about Calcutta, is a native 

 of Mauritius ; whence plants bearing single flowers were 

 introduced some little time ago. These bear fruit about the 

 middle of February, very similar in appearance to the English 

 Easpberry, but filled with hard seeds, and having no better 

 flavour than that of a bad Blackberry. 



Easily propagated by 'removal of suckers, or by seed. 



Rubus albescens. 



HILL OR MYSORE RASPBERRY. 



A large-growing straggling kind of Bramble, remarkable for 

 the pure white kind of down with which the young shoots are 

 entirely covered ; native of the Nilgherry Hills, where it grows 

 wild everywhere in great abundance. 



The fruit, except in bearing a hoary appearance, is very 



