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WILD STRAWBERRY. 

 ! Shown bv A in the opposite picture) 

 HIGH BUSH BLACKBERRY. 

 (Shown by B in the opposite picture) 



These two plants need no introduc- 

 tion and are only included because 

 they are so very common and so pop- 

 ular that to omit them would be an 

 almost unpardonable offense in the 

 eyes of the school children who 

 gather the luscious strawberries from 

 the low vines that trail through, many 

 of our fields, or the equally delect- 

 able blackberry that is to be found in 

 thickets, along walls or by the road- 

 side and whose thorns are often the 

 cause of severe reproof of the par- 

 ents when the child returns with frock or trousers sadly in 

 need of repairs. 



Strawberries and blackberries belong to the Rose Family, 

 a large family containing a very great many species of 

 widely differing plants, but all agreeing in the feature of 

 having five petals and five sepals. Presumably to protect 

 themselves from browsing mammals, many, species which 

 dwell in open or pasture land are armed with sharp prickles. 



One of our most common roses, the Wild Swamp Rose, is 

 shown in our frontispiece. All our wild roses are what we 

 call single, that is they have but the correct number of 

 petals- — five. The beautiful monstrocities (I am using this 

 term only in the sense of their being so widely at variance 

 with the original forms) produced by our gardeners and 

 horticulturists are nearly all originated from foreign spe- 

 cies. Roses secrete no nectar but furnish an abundance of 

 pollen for the numerous bees, flies and beetles that visit them. 



