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will hardly average a l>u>li to a hundred acn 

 land." Finally, in 1890, the present writer referred 

 the purple -canes to this Rubus neglectus of Peck, and 

 attempted t<t designate the botanical characters which 

 distinguish the cultivated forms from those of Rubus 

 occidentalis and /.'. strigosus. The garden berries which 

 In- then referred to this species are Shaffer, Caroline, 

 Gladstone, Philadelphia, Reliance "ami probably 

 Crystal White." This Eubus neglectus is widely dis- 

 tributed in a wild state. In order to understand it. we 

 must draw the characters of its relatives, the Mark and 

 the red ; ami in these features the accompanying 

 pictures of these species will help us. 



The botanist may distinguish our four types of 

 cultivated raspberries by the following mark-: 



Rubus occidentalis, Linnaeus (Blackcap, Thimble- 

 berry "t' Bome). (Fig. ■">•">.) Stems Long, and at ma- 

 turity recurved and rooting at the tips, conspicuously 

 glaucous, armed with Btiff, hooked prickles; inflores- 

 cence densely cymose, the peduncles all aggregated or 

 rarely one <>r two Bomewhal remote, shorl ami stiff, 

 simple and erect, bearing Btiff prickles ami sometimes 

 also straighl bristles; petals shorter than the s«-pal> : 

 broil depressed, firm ami dense, black. Here belong 

 the Gregg, Ohio, Hilborn, Ada. ami others. The close- 

 fruited clusters are well shown in the accompanying 

 photograph (Fig •"•">>. and ii will be Been that the 

 condensation is greater in the Gregg than in tin- wild 

 berry. Amber-fruited forms of tin- black-cap are 

 tonally found in wild an 



From Wyoming westward tin- wild black-cap rasp- 



bern i- represented bj another -1 ies, known as Rubus 



It is doubtful it' the plant is reall} distinct 



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