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juicy drupes witla a very tender skin, dim-red or ochreous when 

 ri^jo. 



In woods, thickets, and on heaths. Common, and pretty gene- 

 rally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Stem 2 to 3 feet high, the first year producing nothing but 

 leaves, the second flowering-shoots, after wliich it decays. Leaflets 

 variable in size, shape, and degree of dentition, the terminal one 

 the largest, | to 4 inches long. Stipules adnate for more than half 

 their length, the free portion strapshaped-subulate. Tlowers droop- 

 ing, white, 1^ inch across. Sepals deltoid-ovate, cuspidate. Fruit 

 in the Avild plant § to f inch long ; stones pitted, denticulated ; 

 fruiting-calyx reflexed. 



Maspberry. 



French, Emux Framboisier. German, Hi'mbeere. 



The general appearance and taste of the fruit of this plant, which is in all respects 

 a bramble, are too well known to need description, though it may not be known that 

 cultivation does not appear to have improved its flavour, though greatly increasing its 

 size. We read in old writers that this shrub grew on Mount Ida, of classical celebrity : 

 hetice its specific name. The plea-sant taste of the fruit is well known, and as a preserve, 

 boiled with sugar, it is especially delicious. Other preparations ot the fruit, such as 

 syrup and raspberry vinegar, are well known to housewives. There are two great 

 varieties of Raspberries in cultivation, — the red and the white or yellow kinds. Of the 

 red Raspberries there are some twenty sub-varieties, and of the pale-coloured sorts 

 some three or four. Raspberry-bushes prosper most and bear the fiuest fruit in a 

 light rich loamy soil. They are in their prime about the third or fourth year, and if well 

 managed, continue in perfection five or six years ; after which they are apt to decline 

 in growth, and the fruit to become small. The fruit of the different varieties comes in 

 from the end of June or July till October or later. As it ripens, it should be quickly 

 gathered for immediate use, because when fully ripe it will not keep above two or three 

 days before it moulds or becomes maggoty, and unfit to be used. 



The Raspberry and the Strawberry form each interesting examples of the nature 

 of fruits botanically considered ; — the Strawberry which we eat being the fleshy recep- 

 tacle on which are placed the little yellow fruits, and the Raspberry consisting of such 

 fruits, soft and juicy, surroundiug the hard woody receptacle, which is thrown aside. 

 These examples can be understood and appreciated by the youngest observer. 



SPECIES(?)IV.— RUBUS LEESII. Bab. 

 Plate CCCCXLIIL 

 Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 97. Lees, in Phyt. Ser. I. Vol. IV. p. 930. 



Rootstock stoloniferous. Stem biennial, sub-erect or arching, 

 round, minutely tomentose, prickly ; prickles numerous, slender, 

 straight, from a compressed bulbous base. Leaves ternate ; 



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