Ornamental Species 



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general cultivation 

 than it has yet re- 

 ceived. It is some- 

 what difficult to prop- 

 agate, which will 

 naturally render it 

 more expensive and 

 harder to get than it 

 otherwise would be. 

 There are nurserymen 

 in the West, however, 

 who make a specialty 

 of collecting these 

 mountain plants, and 

 growing them until 

 accustomed to culti- 

 vation before offering / 

 them for sale, or even 

 propagating them 

 wholly in the nursery. 

 Plants from such 

 sources can readily be 

 obtained, and will gen- 

 erally prove satisfac- 

 tory. (Fig. 18.) 



Rubus cratcegifolius 

 is an oriental species 

 of some ornamental 

 value which has been 

 grown somewhat in 

 this country. Its 

 chief merit lies in its 

 foliage. The flowers 



Fig. 18, Rubus deliciosus (X 2 / 3 ) 



