STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 



All through the hot months of June, July and August a 

 succession of flowers is put forth at the ends of the branches 

 and branchlets of our Sweet-scented Raspberry 



" An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds." 



The shrub is from two to five feet in height, branching 

 from the woody perennial rootstock; the leaves are from 

 three to five-lobed, the lobes pointed and roughly toothed. 

 The leaves are of a dullish green, varying in size from 

 several inches in diameter to mere bracts. The blossoms 

 are often as large as those of the Sweet-briar and Dog-rose, 

 but when first unfolded are more compact and cup-like. 

 The fruit, which is popularly known by the name of Wild 

 Mulberry, consists of many small red grains, somewhat dry 

 and acid, scarcely tempting to the palate but not injurious 

 in any degree. The shrub is more attractive for its flowers 

 than for its insipid fruit. We have, indeed, few that are more 

 ornamental among our native plants than this Rubus. 

 Canada possesses many attractive shrubs that are but little 

 known, which flourish year after year on the lonely shores 

 of our inland lakes and marshy beaver meadows, unnoticed 

 and uncared for in their solitary native haunts. 



Closely resembling the Purple Flowering Raspberry is the 

 White Flowering Raspberry (R. Ntitkanus Mocino), the 

 chief difference being in the color of the flowers and the 

 shape of the petals, which in the latter species are of a lovely 

 pure white and oval in shape. The whole plant is slightly 

 smaller and less bristly. The fruit is very similar in both 

 species. 



WILD RED RASPBERRY Rubus strigosus (Michx.). 



The Wild Raspberry springs up spontaneously all over 

 Canada. In the forest, in newly made clearings after the 

 fire has passed over the ground, on every upturned root, 



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