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much dissected and sharply serrate ; fruit roundish, 

 black, grains large, sweet, with a peculiar musky 

 flavor, borne in loose panicles. 



The Double White and Double Pink Brambles are 

 referred to at some length in the botanical section. 

 (Chap. XI.) These are "also European species, but 

 they have been long known in this country. The 

 flowers are said to resemble miniature roses more than 

 they do those of the other members of the family. 

 They are reported to be admirably adapted to being 

 grown as single specimens, and it is only when thus 

 planted, giving them a chance for full and symmet- 

 rical development, that their beauty is to be fully 

 appreciated. These pretty forms have never become 

 so popular and common as they deserve to be, and 

 apparently they ought to be better known. 



There are several other species, not so well known 

 as the above, which may in time prove themselves 

 worthy of being planted for ornamental purposes. One 

 of these is Rubus trifidus, or Fire Raspberry, the name 

 applying to the bright red color of the foliage in 

 autumn. This has been tried at the Arnold arboretum 

 and recommended for wider planting. 



Another very interesting species, which might per- 

 haps be made to succeed here, is Rubus Henry i, from 

 China. It belongs to the simple -leaved section of the 

 genus, and is described as "a tall, climbing shrub, with 

 deeply three -lobed, thick leaves, glabrous above and 

 clothed with a white tomentum below ; flowers small, 

 red, in terminal racemes." It may be that this would 

 prove more interesting to botanists, owing to its dis- 



