FLOWERING SHRUBS 
berry; flowers, rather large, very delicately tinted with 
pinkish or else white, like a small single Briar Rose. This 
low Blackberry seems to love rocky ground, creeping among 
stones and rooting in the black mould in the crevices; the 
fruit is blackish-purple and pleasant to the taste. 
SwAMPBERRY—Rubus triflorus (Richardson), 
is a pretty low trailing plant, bearing somewhat insigni- 
ficant white flowers and ruby-colored juicy acid fruit; it 
ripens about the same time as the Wild Strawberry, and the 
plants are seen running among the wild grasses and straw- 
berry vines, conspicuous by the lighter green leaves, which 
grow in compounds from three to five, coarsely doubly 
serrate and sharply pointed; the flowers in small bunches 
of three. Like that of all the genus, the fruit is perfectly 
wholesome. 
EARLY WILD RosE—osa blanda (Ait.). 
(PLATE XX.) 
** Nor did I wonder at the lilies white, 
Nor praise the deep vermilion of the rose— 
‘¢ The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 
For that sweet odor which in it doth live.” 
—Shakespeare. 
The Early Wild Rose (Rosa blanda) is hardly so deeply 
tinted as our Dwarf Wild Rose (Rosa lucida), but both 
possess attractions of color and fragrance, qualities that 
have made the rose the theme of many a poet’s song. In 
the flowery language of the Hast, beauty and the rose seem 
almost to be synonymous terms. The Italian poets are full 
of allusions to this lovely flower, especially to the red 
Damask Rose. 
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