SOME INEDIBLE FRUITS 

 WHICH MAY BE TRANSFORMED 



EVEN THE ACRID BARBERRY Is CHANGING 



WE have had occasion more than once 

 to call attention to the extraordinary 

 importance of the Rose family in its 

 relations with man, and in particular to the won- 

 derful value of the great genus Rubus. 



The family gives us an astonishing proportion 

 of our cultivated fruits and berries, in addition to 

 a great variety of our most beautiful flowers. ' The 

 apple, peach, plum, cherry, quince, pear, loquat, 

 apricot, among orchard fruits, and the blackberry, 

 raspberry, dewberry, Salmonberry, Cloudberry 

 and strawberry, among small fruits, are all repre- 

 sentatives of the same tribe. 



Moreover, there are several minor fruits that 

 claim membership in the family to which refer- 

 ence has not hitherto been made, but some of 

 which will be introduced in the present chapter. 



Any plant that has membership in the family 



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