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in preference to what is gloomy and repulsive, may make even 

 the Bramble a source of agreeable recollection, and of passing 

 pleasure. Such a mind must have been that of the author of 

 Corn-Law Rhymes, who thus writes upon this little respected 

 plant : 



" Thy fruit full well the school-boy knows, 



Wild Bramble of the brake, 

 So put thou forth thy small white rose, 

 I love it for his sake. 



' Though Woodbines flaunt and Roses blow 



O'er all the fragrant bowers, 

 Thou needst not be ashamed to show 

 Thy satin-threaded flowers. 



* For dull the eye, the heart is dull, 



That cannot feel how fair, 

 Amid all beauty beautiful 

 Thy tender blossoms are. 



" Aud thou, wild Bramble, back doth bring 



In all their beauteous power, 

 The fresh green days of life's fair spring, 

 And boyhood's blossomy hour. 



" Again thou bids me be a boy, 

 More fain than bird or bee, 

 To gad in freedom and in joy, 

 O'er bank and brae with thee." Elliott. 



O. S. We have many other species of the Bramble, most of them very 

 similar to the Common Blackberry ; amongst others are the Raspberry and 

 the Cloudberry, the fruit of both of which is highly esteemed. 



STRAWBERRY. FRAGARIA. 

 WOOD STRAWBERRY. Fragaria vesca. 



Plate 7, fig. 3. 



Surely it is not necessary to describe the Wood Strawberry, 

 it is so common and so well known. Its little red fruit so de- 

 licious and so fragrant its flowers so white and delicate its 

 leaves divided into three leaflets, all hairy its calyx too of ten 

 pieces, five of them smaller than the rest its long suckers ? 

 trailing on the ground, and sending out another plant, perhaps 

 six or eight inches from the parent and its little yellow nuts 

 or seeds stuck outside of its fleshy fruit, altogether make it a 

 favorite and interesting plant, brought very often into our gar- 

 dens, and there blossoming and yielding its fruit throughout 

 the summer and autumn, and even sometimes in the winter. 



