RU'BUS FRUTICO'SUS. 
var. rubra pleno. 
DOUBLE RED-FLOWERED BRAMBLE. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRIA. rOLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEA-. 
Native of 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Inhabits 
Europe. 
10 feet. 
June to Sept. 
Shrub. 
Hedges. 
No. 577. 
Rubus, from a Celtic word, indicating red. F'ru- 
ticosus, from the Latin frutcx, a shrub. 
This very showy plant is but a variety of the well- 
known British bramble; but whence it has been in- 
troduced to our gardens we are not informed. It is 
worthy of notice as a free-growing flowering shrub, 
and particularly as a fencing shrub, for who amongst 
us would not delight in seeing his hedges clothed 
with beautiful flowers, if their utility be thereby un- 
diminished. 
Layered, in the usual way, this plant will seldom 
make roots, to yield increase, but it may be readily 
propagated by covering with mould, in spring, a 
few inches of the points of the year-old shoots. 
Each point will produce one or more fine plants, 
which may be detached by midsummer. If, in 
Spring, the old shoots be cut out, and three or four 
of the young ones trained to j)oles, ten or twelve 
feet high, or round ornamental supports, they will 
emit a profusion of free-flowering lateral shoots, and 
prove worthy of a more distinguished title than 
bramble. This shrub w ill grow in any common soil, 
even if it be stiff’ and wet. 
Dun’s Syst. But. v. 2, 534. 
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