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stincts of housewives. How clearly they recall to mind the 

 squareness and regularity of some country parlour ; and how 

 strikingly giddy they appear in contrast to the sombreness of 

 their surroundings, as they droop over the crayon of some 

 cherished relative that hangs on the wall. We prefer to see 

 them clambering over the stone walls and mingling in the 

 thickets along the roadsides, where they are perhaps more 

 generally admired than any other of our late season berries. 



PURPLE=FLOWERINQ RASPBERRY. (Plate CLII.) 



Rubus odoratus. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Rose. Purplish pink. fragrant. New England southward June, July. 



to Ga. westward to Mich. 



Flowers: large; two inches broad; terminal; clustered. Calyx: of five 

 long, slender lobes tipped with a fine point; hairy; sticky. Corolla: of five 

 rosaceous petals. Stamens : numerous. Pistils : numerous, fruit : similar 

 to a raspberry, edible. Leaves : alternate ; palmately three to five lobed, the 

 middle lobe longer than the others ; netted-veined ; serrated. Stem : shrubby 

 branching ; clammy. 



Hardly any description is needed of the purple-flowering 

 raspberry as it is portrayed so clearly and beautifully by the 

 coloured plate. We can all see that there is nothing plebeian 

 or coarse about the plant. Its moral tone is evidently of the 

 very highest. The leaves grow to a great size, and when folded 

 together make excellent drinking cups, which often enable the 

 weary traveller to quench his thirst by some near-by stream. 

 As we all know, the berries are delightful. 



The little group of bees on the plate remind us that Mr. 

 Burroughs says the fact at the bottom of the common state- 

 ment that bees have their own likes and dislikes for certain 

 people, is simply that they will " sting a person who is afraid of 

 them and goes skulking and dodging about,- and they will not 

 sting a person who faces them boldly and has no dread of 

 them." 



J?. strigbsus and JZ. ocddentalis are the red and black wild 

 raspberries from which many of the cultivated varieties have 

 been produced. 



