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stincts of housewives. How clearly they recall to mind the 
squareness and regularity of some country parlour; and how 
strikingly giddy they appear in contrast to the sombreness of 
their surroundings, as they droop over the crayon of some 
cherished relative that hangs on the wall. We prefer to see 
_them clambering over the stone walls and mingling in the 
thickets along the roadsides, where they are perhaps more 
generally admired than any other of our late season berries. 
PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY. (P/ate CLIZ,) 
Rubus odoratus. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Rose. Purplish pink. Fragrant. New Engiand southward June, July. 
to Ga. westward to Mich. 
Flowers: large; two inches broad; terminal; clustered. Calyx: of five 
long, slender lobes tipped with a fine point; hairy; sticky. Corolla: of five 
rosaceous petals. Stamens: numerous. /ysti/s: numerous. “/7v7t: similar 
to araspberry, edible. Leaves: alternate; palmately three to five lobed, the 
middle lobe longer than the others ; netted-veined ; serrated. Stem : shrubby 
branching ; clainmy. 
Hardly any description is needed of the purple-flowering 
raspberry as it is portrayed so clearly and beautifully by the 
coloured plate. Wecan all see that there is nothing plebeian 
or coarse about the pliant. Its moral tone is evidently of the 
very highest. The leaves grow to a great size, and when folded 
together make excellent drinking cups, which often enable the 
weary traveller to quench his thirst by some near-by stream. 
As we all know, the berries are delightful. 
The little group of bees on the plate remind us that Mr. 
Burroughs says the fact at the bottom of the common state- 
ment that bees have their own likes and dislikes for certain 
people, is simply that they will “sting a person who is afraid of 
them and goes skulking and dodging about, and they will not 
sting a person who faces them boldly and has no dread of 
them.” 
R. strigosus and R. occidentalis are the red and black wild 
raspberries from which many of the cultivated varieties have 
been produced. 
