FLOWERING SHRUBS 



berry; flowers, rather large, very delicately tinted with 

 pinkish or else white, like a small single Briar Rose. This 

 low Blackberry seems to love rocky ground, creeping among 

 stones and rooting in the black mould in the crevices; the 

 fruit is blackish-purple and pleasant to the taste. 



SWAMPBERRY Rubus triflorus (Richardson), 



is a pretty low trailing plant, bearing somewhat insigni- 

 ficant white flowers and ruby-colored juicy acid fruit; it 

 ripens about the same time as the Wild Strawberry, and the 

 plants are seen running among the wild grasses and straw- 

 berry vines, conspicuous by the lighter green leaves, which 

 grow in compounds from three to five, coarsely doubly 

 serrate and sharply pointed; the flowers in small bunches 

 of three. Like that of all the genus, the fruit is perfectly 

 wholesome. 



EARLY WILD ROSE Rosa Wanda (Ait.). 



(PLATE XX.) 



" Nor did I wonder at the lilies white, 



Nor praise the deep vermilion of the rose 



*' The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 

 For that sweet odor which in it doth live." 



Shakespeare. 



The Early Wild Rose (Rosa blanda) is hardly so deeply 

 tinted as our Dwarf Wild Rose (Rosa lucida), but both 

 possess attractions of color and fragrance, qualities that 

 have made the rose the theme of many a poet's song. In 

 the flowery language of the East, beauty and the rose seem 

 almost to be synonymous terms. The Italian poets are full 

 of allusions to this lovely flower, especially to the red 

 Damask Rose. 



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