STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
All through the hot months of June, July and August a 
succession of flowers is put forth at the ends of the branches 
and branchlets of our Sweet-scented Raspberry— 
‘“* An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds.” 
The shrub is from two to five feet in height, branching 
from the woody perennial rootstock; the leaves are from 
three to five-lobed, the lobes pointed and roughly toothed. 
The leaves are of a dullish green, varying in size from 
several inches in diameter to mere bracts. The blossoms 
are often as large as those of the Sweet-briar and Dog-rose, 
but when first unfolded are more compact and cup-like. 
The fruit, which is popularly known by the name of Wild 
Mulberry, consists of many small red grains, somewhat dry 
and acid, scarcely tempting to the palate but not injurious 
in any degree. The shrub is more attractive for its flowers 
than for its insipid fruit. We have, indeed, few that are more 
ornamental among our native plants than this Rubus. 
Canada possesses many attractive shrubs that are but little 
known, which flourish year after year on the lonely shores 
of our inland lakes and marshy beaver meadows, unnoticed 
and uncared for in their solitary native haunts. 
Closely resembling the Purple Flowering Raspberry is the 
White Flowering Raspberry (Rk. Nutkanws—Mocino), the 
chief difference being in the color of the flowers and the 
shape of the petals, which in the latter species are of a lovely 
pure white and oval in shape. The whole plant is slightly 
smaller and less bristly. The fruit is very similar in both 
species. 
Witp Rep RaspBerRRY—Rubus strigosus (Michx.). 
The Wild Raspberry springs up spontaneously all over 
Canada. In the forest, in newly made clearings after the 
fire has passed over the ground, on every upturned root, 
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