298 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FARM 
The dewberry forms low, trailing, nearly thornless 
thickets at the level of one’s shoetops in dry fields. There 
are other blackberries and raspberries also, in both wetter and 
drier situations, and many other thorny things, such as wild 
rose, wild gooseberry (fig. 3 on p. 18) and greenbrier, in the 
Riss thorny thickets 
of the farm. 
But such as 
those above 
described are 
the ones that 
have most 
affected human 
interests. Fit 
only to be burn- 
ed—except 
when (as not 
infrequently), 
without care or 
thought from 
us, they happen 
to be found 
bearing a load 
of luscious fruit. 
Their fruit- 
ing in the wild 
we may, indeed, with profit observe, if we would manage 
wisely their cultivated relatives; for in the wild we may 
easily see what sort of soiland amount of shading and kind 
of mulch produce the finest crop of fruit. Their love for 
partially shaded situations renders raspberries especially 
adapted to be used as “‘fillers” in young orchards. 
Any good blackberry patch, clustering about an old stone 
heap or rail pile in a pasture, will give an excellent opportunity 
SS SAB 
ra 4 
Fic. 128. Wild red raspberry. 
