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Purple-flowering Raspberry (246) — Rubus odor^tus — is of bushy 

 growth (3 to 5 feet high) with bristly stems, very large 3- to 5-lobed 

 maple-like alternate leaves and large, 1 to 2 inches broad, rose-purple 

 flowers in rather large clusters. The fruit, as indicated by its name, is 

 raspberry-like but broad and flat, light red and not very edible. It 

 blooms and fruits all summer. If it were not for its spreading tendency 

 and rank growth, overtopping other shrubs, it would be a very valuable 

 bush for cultivation. It grows well in semishade, so should have a place 

 in large grounds. The western species, Wiiite-flowering Raspherrv — 

 Rubus parviflorus, — is similar but with white flowers, few in a cluster. 



Strawberry-Raspberry (217) — Rubus roste-folius — is an erect tall- 

 growing shrub — 2 to 4 feet high north, but evergreen and much taller 

 South, with compound pinnate leaves having 5 to 15 strongly veined 

 sharply serrate narrow blades. The showy white flow^ers are large, 1|- 

 2 inches broad, either solitary or in few-flowered clusters. This is a 

 beautiful plant and worthy of more general culture than it receives. The 

 fruit is large, 1 to 1| inches long, raspberry -like, bright red, but not 

 very edible. The double form, 'Bridal Rose' — coronarius (R. grandi- 

 florus) , — is also cultivated. 



Wineberry — Rubus phoenicolksius — has the stems densely covered 

 with brownish red glandular hairs and the leaves compound of 3 to o 

 blades, the end one often irregularly lobed. An interesting but not very 

 beautiful shrub which kills to the ground in the North. It propagates by 

 its rooting tips. 



Cut-leaved or Evergreen Blackberry (248) — Rubus lacini^tus — 

 is in the South a tall straggling bush with large canes as thick as the wrist 

 and nearly evergreen leaves of many much-cut blades. In the North it 

 does not grow tall, but has a more spreading habit, and its leaves are not 

 evergreen. It blooms and ripens its black thimble-shaped fruit from late 

 summer to October. The above and a few other species are given in the 

 following [Divisions.] 



KEY TO ORNAMENTAL BLACKBERRIES AND 

 RASPBERRIES 



* Leaves simple, 3-5-lobed ; fruit raspberry- or cap-shaped. (A.) 

 A. Flowers very large, 1-2 inches broad ; leaves large, 5-10 

 inches broad ; steins not prickly but bristly ; fruit broad, 1 

 inch, flat, orange to red. (B.) 

 B. Flowers rose-purple in large clusters. Purple-flowering 

 Raspberry (24(5) — Rubus odor^tus. 



