CHAPTER VI 



MISCELLANEOUS BRAMBLES 



While raspberries, blackberries and dewberries of 

 the types which we have described in the foregoing 

 chapters are the only brambles of much commercial 

 importance in this country, there are nevertheless a 

 few outlying types to which we may profitably give 

 attention. 



THE ORIENTAL RASPBERRIES 



At least four species of oriental or Japanese rasp- 

 berries have found their way into the United States, 

 the best known probably being the one reintroduced a 

 few years ago under the name of Japanese Wineberry. 

 Unfortunately they have not proved so valuable as 

 many other Japanese fruits, and have comparatively 

 little to recommend them, so that they are never likely 

 to become very popular nor to be grown to any great 

 extent, though two of them have some value as orna- 

 mental plants. 



The Mayberry (Japan Golden Mayberry). This 

 was raised by Luther Burbank, of California, and is 

 said to have been produced from seeds of Rubus micro- 

 phyllus, a Japanese species, crossed with the Cuthbert 

 raspberry. It is claimed to produce a bush six to 

 eight feet high, bearing numerous large white blos- 



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