FRUITS 



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Fir.. 97. — European Raspborr>" {Ruhu^ idcrus, Rose Family, Rosacea). 

 1, flowering branch and leaves. ^, flower cut ve^tieallJ^ J, fruit. 4< 

 floral diagram. (Wossidlo.) — An erect, pricklj' shrub; leaflets whitish 

 l^eneath; flowers white; fruit dark red, yellow, or whitish. This species 

 togetlier A^ath our wild red raspberry (/?. strigosus) which is closely 

 similar to it, have produced our cultivated \'arieties. 



take account of them. Nevertheless their importance as an 

 aid to ch.gestion is behcved to be far from insignificant. As 

 the fruit ripens, the various flavors and acids, and most of 

 the attractive pigments, arise as by-products. 



39. Miscellaneous food-products. Under this head we 

 must consider the products of certain plants which do not 

 properly belong to any of the foregoing groups. Thus in the 

 common garden rhubarb or pie-plant (Fig. 112) the part 

 commonly used is the leafstalk, just as in celery; but it can 

 hardly be called a vegetable, for it is used cjuite like a fruit 



