42 FLOWERING RASPBERRY. 



The shrul) is from two to five feet in height, branching from the 

 woody perennial root-stock; the leaves are from three to five lobed, 

 the lobes pointed and rougiily toothed. The leaves are of a dullish 

 green, varying in size from several inches in length, to mere bracts. 

 The blossoms are often as large as those of the sweet-briar and dog- 

 rose, but when first unfolded more compact and cup like. The fruit 

 consists of many small red grains arranged in the form of an inverted 

 saucer on the receptacle, and is somewhat dry and acid, more tempt- 

 ing to the eye than the palate, but not injurious in any degree. The 

 shrub is more attractive for its flowers than its insipid fruit. We 

 have indeed few that are were ornamental among our native plants 

 than the Rubus Odoratus. Canada cannot boast of the Rhododend- 

 rons and ^Vzaleas that adorn the Western and Northern States, but 

 she possesses many attractive shrubs that are but little known, which 

 flourish year after year on the lonely shores of our inland lakes and 

 marshy beaver meadows. Ledums and Kalmias, with many a fair 

 flower that withers unnoticed and uncared for in its solitary native 

 haunts. 



