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from tin- eastern species, ami Card thinks it a variety. 

 Its < • 1 j i < • I' marks are shorter and more hooked prickles, 

 more coarsely toothed leaves, and a yellowish red fruit 

 which lias a white bloom. It has been recommended 

 for cultivation for its fruit, bul m> named varieties have 



ippeared. Wickson speaks of it as having 

 yellowish red fruit, rather large, with a white bloom, 

 and agreeable flavor." Shinn says thai it "occasionally 

 carries a fair crop of fruit, bu1 one may often search 

 a whole acre of thimbleberry bushes in the season with- 

 out obtaining a double handful." 



l>'nl>iis neglectus, Peck. (22nd Rep. Regents X. Y. 

 Stat.- Univ. ■">•'!. l v 'i'.i.) Hal.it various, hut the stems in 

 typical forms long and rooting from the tip: stems 

 glaucous, usually more or less armed with prickles, 

 often bristly also; inflorescence racemose-cymose, the 

 peduncles Bhort ami usually prickly, mostl} stiff, the 

 upper ones erecl or ascending, simple or uearh -<. 

 above hut unequally branched below, some of them 

 aggregated above ; fruit varying from purple-black t<> 

 brighl purple or even yellowish. Among cultivated 

 Borts, the Shaffer (Pig. 56) may be considered the type 

 of the species. A glance at the illustration will buow 

 the a^L r ''e.u r at'-d character of the fruit cluster at its 

 apex ami the gradual tailing out of the cluster at 

 the base. The lowest branches in the cluster are apt 

 to give imperfect fruit. There are all gradations, 

 from the heavy-topped cluster of the Cuthbert to the 

 loose cluster of the Caroline, bul the ragged cluster 

 i- usually characteristic of Rubus neglect us. 



Rubus itrigosua, Michaux (Red Raspberry). (Fig. 

 57.) St. -in-, at least in the wild plant, densely clothed 

 with straight ami weak bristles, usually brown or 



