ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceae. 



There are several kinds of Sericotheca, much like 

 Spiraea, except the fruits. 



A handsome conspicuous shrub, from 

 Ocean Spray three to ht feet y h w {thout stipules, 



Sericotheca dis- . . 1 1 j i 



color (Spiraea) Wlth roughish, dull-green leaves, toothed | 

 (Holodiscus) or lobed, but not with leaflets, and pale 



White and woolly on the under side. The tiny 



Summer flowers form beautiful, plumy, branching . 



Northwest and . , ' . , 



Southwest clusters, eight inches or more in length 



and almost as much across, cream-white i 

 and fuzzy, drooping and turning brownish as the flowers 

 fade. This is common in the mountains. 



There are numerous kinds of Rubus, in temperate 

 regions, with white, pink, or purple flowers, and red, black, 

 or yellowish "berries." The fruit is not really a berry, 

 but a collection of many, tiny, round stone-fruits, crowded 

 on a pulpy, conical receptacle. That of the Raspberry 

 has a "bloom," and falls off the receptacle when ripe, bift i 

 the Blackberry has shining, black fruit, which clings to ! 

 the receptacle. Rubus, meaning "red," is the ancient 

 Latin name for the bramble. Raspberries were cultivated 

 by the Romans in the fourth century. 



A handsome bush, not at all trailing. 



Salmon-berry . . . 1 , . 



^j M5 from three to nine feet high, with dark- ' 



spectabilis brown, prickly stems, fine foliage and I 



Red flowers, and conspicuously beautiful fruit, j 



Summer The leaves are nea rly smooth, with three! 



Northwest . , 



leaflets, and the flowers, about two inches 



across, are a brilliant shade of deep pink, not purplish in ; 

 tone, with yellow centers, and grow singly, or two or three I 

 together. The fruit is a firm, smooth raspberry, over an j 

 inch long, bright orange-color, more or less tinted with red, j 

 with a rather pleasant but insipid taste and not very sweet. | 

 This grows in woods. It is rather confusing that this) 

 should be called Salmon-berry in the West, for in the! 

 East that is the common name of Rubus parviflorus. 



An evergreen bush, a few feet high and! 

 Common Black- . , , 



berry more or less erect; or the prickly stemsl 



Rubus vitifblius trailing on the ground, or climbing over 

 White other shrubs, and sometimes eighteen feet 



Spring, summer ^ The i eaves are downy, or almost 



California, etc. . 



smooth, usually rather coarse in texture, 



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