280 NATIVE AMERICAN FRUITS. 
as the old-world stocks were used the new-world growers met 
with nothing but failure; success was possible only when the wi 
i e result is 
European, which is a wine fruit, or, as the author puts it, 
*Kuropean writings treat of the vine, but American writings 
treat of grapes.” 
e systematic botanist will be glad to have the exhaustive 
bottom of things, and his unravelling of the Rubi entailed visits to 
our own and other European herbaria for the purpose of consulting 
: .’ The volume is well 
illustrated, many of the figures being full-page plates. They include 
useful sketches of habit, figures of fruits, and also portraits of some 
of the old workers. Those who are interested in fruit-plants from 
a cultural point of view will find much of interest and profit in the 
book, while for the pure botanist it supplies a valuable chapter on 
practical evolution. 
Professor Card’s Bush-Fruits is less generally interesting, but 
more practically useful. It is described as a horticultural monograph 
of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and 
other shrub-like fruits, and is the first of a proposed series of mono- 
graphs on the various types of American fruits. Prof. Bailey is the 
editor of the series, and the author of the present volume was & 
bush-fruit grower before he was a university student and a teacher 
of horticulture. 
“Like all European fruits, they have been tried again and again, 
yet they have only succeeded here and there, when meeting peculiarly 
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