ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



There are several kinds of Sericotheca, much like 

 Spiraea, except the fruits. 



A handsome conspicuous shrub, from 



Ocean Spray thfee to j ht feet hi j w i t h out stipules, 



Sencothlca dis- 

 color (Spiraea) Wlth roughish, dull-green leaves, toothed 

 (Holodiscus) or lobed, but not with leaflets, and pale 



White and woolly on the under side. The tiny 



Summer flowers form beautiful, plumy, branching 



Northwest and . . 



Southwest clusters, eight inches or more in length 



and almost as much across, cream-white 

 and fuzzy, drooping and turning brownish as the flowers 

 fade. This is common in the mountains. 



There are numerous kinds of Rubus, in temperate 

 regions, 'with white, pink, or purple flowers, and red, black, 

 or yellowish "berries." The fruit is not really a berry, 

 but a collection of many, tiny, round stone-fruits, crowded 

 on a pulpy, conical receptacle. That of the Raspberry 

 has a "bloom," and falls off the receptacle when ripe, but 

 the Blackberry has shining, black fruit, which clings to 

 the receptacle. Rubus, meaning "red," is the ancient 

 Latin name for the bramble. Raspberries were cultivated 

 by the Romans in the fourth century. 



A handsome bush, not at all trailing, 

 Salmon-berry ./,.,., 



tib us trom three to nine feet high, with dark- 



spectabilis brown, prickly stems, fine foliage and 



Red flowers, and conspicuously beautiful fruit. 



The leaves are nearly smooth, with three 

 Northwest 



leaflets, and the flowers, about two inches 



across, are a brilliant shade of deep pink, not purplish in 

 tone, with yellow centers, and grow singly, or two or three 

 together. The fruit is a firm, smooth raspberry, over an 

 inch long, bright orange-color, more or less tinted with red, 

 with a rather pleasant but insipid taste and not very sweet. 

 This grows in woods. It is rather confusing that this 

 should be called Salmon-berry in the West, for in the 

 East that is the common name of Rubus parviflorus. 



An evergreen bush, a few feet high and 

 Common Black- 

 berry more or less erect; or the pnckly stems 



Rubus vitifdliux trailing on the ground, or climbing over 

 White other shrubs, and sometimes eighteen feet 



Spring, summer j The leayes are downy or almost 



California, etc. J . 



smooth, usually rather coarse in texture, 



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