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years old. The plant is a cluster rose, with a dozen or twenty 

 light rose-colored flowers in a cluster, and is in blossom all the 

 year round. Our raspberries, too, especially Rubus Molluc- 

 canus, which has large undivided leaves and is covered with 

 hooked thorns, make good hedges. 



Then we have Pithecolobium dulce, a leguminous tree, with 

 two thorns to the axil of each leaf that are sharp as needles 

 and that remain permanently. This put out with the plants 

 four or five inches apart makes an impervious hedge. If un- 

 cut, the butts of the trees will come together, for a full grown 

 tree becomes a foot in diameter. This makes the strongest of 

 hedges ; one which cannot be passed without cutting away 

 some of the trees with an ax. 



We have three kinds of wild raspberries. One is probably 

 Rubus racemosus, or a variety of R. lasiocarpus, and another is 

 R. Molluccanus. The latter bears a black and sour berry that 

 is good for cooking, but is unfit to eat raw unless it is very 

 ripe. One has a yellow fruit with a vinous flavor, and the 

 whole plant is covered with a pruinose bloom. Another re- 

 sembles your wild black-cap, but it spreads by suckers and 

 never by rooting tips. It gives promise, for it has as good 

 flavor as any raspberry I ever tasted. 



