ROSE FAMILY 



Floioers. — -May to September. Perfect, borne in loose 

 corymbs or panicles, rose purple, showy, one to two inches 

 across ; bracts membranous. 



Calyx. — Deeply five-parted, densely covered with red glan- 

 dular hairs ; lobes tipped with a long slender appendage. 



Corolla. — Petals five, rose purple, coming crumpled from the 

 bud, inserted on the disk of the calyx. 



Stamens. — Many, inserted on the calyx; filaments purple; 

 anthers dull yellow, two-celled. 



Pistil. — Many carpels inserted on a convex receptacle ; style 

 purplish ; stigma white. 



Fruit. — Each carpel ripens into a tiny red drupe, and together 

 they form an aggregate fruit, depressed, hemispherical, acid. 

 July, September. 



The Purple-flowering Raspberr}^ is very attractive 

 as its pretty rose-like blossoms look out from a dense 

 thicket by a mountain path ; it is equally attractive 

 when transferred from its wild-wood home to the gar- 

 den. When permitted, a single bush will very quickly 

 form a clump, for the underground stems send up 

 abundant shoots. The young stems and shoots are 

 clothed in velvet, so dense are the red hairs which 

 beset them ; but the bark of the oldest stems is a thing 

 of shreds and patches. The blooming period extends 

 from June to October, but there is never any great 

 number of blossoms at one time. The spherical un- 

 opened buds are crowned with a flowing tassel made 

 of the five long points of the calyx. The blossoms 

 come out from the bud a soft rose purple, but quickly 

 fade in the sunshine. In cultivation the plant should 

 be given a shady place. 



The fruit is a red raspberry that sits in a calyx-cup . 

 about it is a fringe of dry stamens. Each little drupe 



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