VINES AND SHRUBS 



toothed, ovate, stalked, the terminal ones more or less heart- 

 shape, hairy underneath. Sepals and petals, 5. The fruit of 

 the blackberry is a collection of small fruits, each a drupe, all 

 clinging to a long, juicy, edible receptacle, green, becoming red, 

 then, when ripe, black. Flowers, several in a raceme, and the 

 large, tempting berries in clusters. The bush is very prickly, 

 from 6 to 8 feet high, with furrowed, bending branches. The 

 flavor of a perfectly ripe, well-developed high blackberry is finer 

 than any cultivated variety. 



Found in fence-rows, borders of thickets, and old fields all 

 over the Northern and Middle States. It is the origin of some 

 20 cultivated species. 



Dewberry 



R. vittosus. — Stems, somewhat woody, becoming low and trail- 

 ing, armed with slender prickles. Fruiting branches ascend, 

 bearing large flowers in leafy racemes, then black, juicy berries, 

 composed of a few small drupes. 



Dry, open fields and roadsides. 



Sand Blackberry 



R. cuneifolias. — A species about 3 feet high, with white flowers, 

 2 to 4 together, nearly 1 inch broad. Leaves, 3 -foliate, roughish 

 above, whitish downy beneath. Leaflets, nearly sessile, inversely 

 ovate, toothed, 1 to 2 inches long. Whole plant armed with stout 

 prickles. May to July. Fruit ripe in July and August. 



One of the finest wild blackberries, luscious and tender. 

 Dry or sandy soil, Connecticut to Florida and westward. 

 Low Bush Blackberry 



R. trvviklis. — Stems, reclining, with short, hooked prickles. 

 Petioles and peduncles also prickly. Leaves, 3 -divided, leathery, 

 evergreen, petioled, rounded at base, acute at apex, serrate. 

 Petals, large, the flowers 1 inch across. Sepals, small, turned back. 

 Fruit, quite long and pleasant in flavor. March to May. 



Virginia to Florida in sterile soil. 



Low Blackberry. Dewberry. Running Blackberry 



R, canadensis. — Leaves of 3, 5, or 7 small leaflets, radiating 

 from a common center, sharply toothed, not prickly, petioled. 

 Leaflets, oval or ovate. A smaller and more seedy berry than the 

 high blackberry. 



A shrubby, trailing plant, growing in the dust by roadsides 

 or in dry fields, preferring rocky or sterile soil. Prickles few 

 and weak, the stem sometimes quite smooth. From New- 

 foundland to Virginia and westward. 

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