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fruit large and good, though probably not abundant 

 enough to render it worthy of cultivation on that account. 

 It seems to succeed well in England, and should do equally 

 well in many parts of our own country. It propagates 

 rapidly from suckers, and may sometimes need to be held 

 in check. It is worthy of thorough trial, for it is really a 

 very attractive plant. (Fig. 19.) 



Rubus latiniatus, the cut-leaved blackberry, has been 

 brought to notice from time to time as a desirable orna- 

 mental, and heralded as a wonderful fruit-bearing plant. 

 Its names have been numerous, including Parsley-leaved, 

 Oregon Evergreen, Oregon Climbing and Sandwich Is- 

 land. Sometimes it has been styled a dewberry, and some- 

 times a blackberry. It is interesting from the peculiar 

 subdivision of its leaves, and an occasional plant may 

 prove useful in certain places, but aside from this feature 

 it possesses no ornamental qualities worthy of special 

 note. This is a European species, to which Americans 

 have given more attention than is given to it across the 

 water, though in some localities there it appears to be 

 prized for its fruit production. In this country it produces 

 little or nothing except along the Pacific coast. For a 

 discussion of it in this connection see the chapter on black- 

 berries (page 117). The plant is so desperately thorny, 

 that to attempt to pick its fruit except where carefully 

 trained would be well-nigh hazardous. 



The form commonly offered for sale may be described 

 as follows: Stems nearly round, more or less trailing, 

 fertile ones erect, prickles small at the base, but recurved 

 and strong above, very numerous; leaves much dissected 

 and sharply serrate; fruit roundish, black, grains large, 



