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soon reach the end of them. We have^ for example, a 

 group' of brambles of the most delightful characterj if 

 regarded only as ornamental plants. The trailing Rubus 

 arcticm is a gem for the rockery ; the upright-growing 

 Rubus ocloratus is a stout bush, producing large flowers, 

 like single purple roses ; the daisy-flowered bramble, Rubm 

 bellidifiorus, covers itself in high summer with myriads 

 of rosy daisies, for its flowers are just of the pattern of 

 double daisies of the most delicate character. And again, 

 there is a grand but somewhat quaint bramble, with 

 stems perfectly white, as though it had with its terrible 

 thorns lacerated a princess of fairyland, and had been 

 whitewashed by the lawyers of the same province to re- 

 deem it from disgrace. It is appropriately named Rubus 

 leucudermis. 



