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RUB US IDJEUS, 



RASPBERRY BUSH. 



I. Thorny RASPBERRY BUSH with red fruit. J.B. 

 RASPBERRY BUSH with red fruit 



THE RASPBERRY BUSH is a shrub that never forms a bush tree nor a branched trunk, but 

 instead it's a clump of several shoots that emerge from the root collar. The canes are 

 straight, cylindrical, furnished & bristling with lots of small red thorns that have very 

 wide bases & very fine tips that curve downward toward the ground. In one year it grows 

 to a height of three to five feet depending on the quality of the soil & the vigor of its 

 roots. 



The leaves are alternate along the shoot. They're held on cylindrical stalks that are 

 quite long & thick and have a number of thorns similar to those on the shoots but much 

 smaller. There are two buds beneath the axilla of each leaf. One, thick & long, is a wood 

 bud containing the rudiments of a branch. The other, situated behind the wood bud 

 directly opposite the petiole of the leaf, is extremely small & contains only a single leaf. 



Each leaf consists of three or five leaflets. The main leaflet extending to the end 

 of the entire leaf is the largest & its midrib is an extension or continuation of the stem. 

 The lateral leaflets are opposite & their midribs are branches or ramifications of the stem 

 with which they form almost a right angle. The first two leaflets, 



