THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
s bed or border of light earth; and the feedling-plants, 
when a year old, tranfplanted in a nurfery. 
But the Sweet-briars are generally raifed or propa- 
gatrd from feed in the common fort; or the different 
varieties of double kinds, &c. by fuckers and layers, 
though the Briars are very reluflant in fuckers: fow 
the feed in autumn or fpring, either broad-caft and 
raked in, or covered in with earth half an inch to an 
inch deep, or fowed in drills that depth, both in drills 
a foot afunder, for occafional tranfplanting; and fome 
may be fowed in a Angle drill, along the edge of a 
border in the fore or back part, or of any other com¬ 
partment, to form a fort of hedge, if required, either 
to remain, or fome tranfplanted while of young 
growth, for they will not tranfplant fuccefsfully when 
large. 
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Or the double and other varieties of the Sweet- 
briars, if they do not afford fuckers for propagation, 
they may be raifed by layers of the young wood in the 
fpring or autumn, or budded, in fummer, upon any 
of the Briar or Rofe flocks. 
Rubus, BRAMBLE and Raspberry. 
Clafs and Order. 
Icofandria, Polygynia, 
f Twenty, or more , Males,, Many Females; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having twen¬ 
ty, or more. Stamina, or Male Fructifications, and 
many Pifiillums or Females. 
THIS Genus, Rubus, furnifhes fix or feven fpecies, 
and many varieties of under-fhrubby, trailing, and 
upright, fhrubby plants, cultivated for variety, orna¬ 
ment, and fome for their production of fruit; all of 
Bender growth, with trailing and upright Italics in the 
different fpecies, garnifhed with pinnate and ternate, 
digitated leaves, compofed of five and three lobes; 
and pentapetalous, white and purple flowers, in cluf- 
ters, at the fides and ends of the fhoots, in June and 
July, having, to each flower, a one-leaved, five- 
parted, permanent cup; five roundifh petals, contain¬ 
ing twenty, or more, fhort flamina, and numerous 
germina and flyles; fucceeded by clufiers of com¬ 
pound, roundifh, fucculent berries, of many fmall 
acini, furnifhed each with one feed; the berries and 
feed ripening in autumn, in Augufl and September, 
fome for eating, others not; and the feeds are feldom 
ufed for fowing, as the plants propagate abundantly 
by cuttings, layers, and fuckers. 
Several Species, viz. 
Confining of trailing kinds, with long, trailing 
ftalks, of feveral years duration, and upright kindsj 
with the Hems of but one year’s continuance, but re¬ 
newed annually every fpring or fummer from the 
root. 
Bramble Kinds. 
Having mofily long, trailing, durable Stents. 
1. Rubus fruticofus —(Shrubby Rubus) Common 
Bramble or Black-berry Plarlt, 
A trailing, deciduous, ftirufcby plant, with long, 
flender, trailing Hems, extending ten or twelve feet— 
the Hems armed with prickly fpines; leaves quinate 
and ternate, hand-fhape, ( middling, dark-green) of 
five and three lobes; and white and purple flowers, 
fucceeded by black-berries.—Native of England and 
all parts of Europe, in hedges.— {Any /oil and fitua- 
tion.) 
Varieties. —Common Black-fruited Bramble. 
White-fruited Bramble. 
Double-bloffom Bramble. 
Unarmed or fmooth Bramble. 
Cut-leaved Bramble. 
Striped-leaved Bramble. 
2. Rubus cafius, Blue-berried Bramble or Dew¬ 
berry. 
A fmaller, weak, trailing, deciduous, under-fhrub, 
with trailing ftalks, extending four or five feet—the 
ftem round and prickly; leaves ternate, ( middling ) of 
three larger, almoft naked, lobes; the lateral ones bi- 
lobated; and fmaller, bluifh-black fruit.—Native of 
England, &c. among bufhes. ( Any foil.) 
3. Rubus hifpidus —Hifpid Canada Bramble. 
A trailing, deciduous, under-fhrub—the ftems long, 
trailing, hifpid or briftly; leaves ternate, {middling) 
of three naked, fmooth lobes, petioles hifpid; and 
fmall berries.—Native of Canada. {Any foil.) 
Raspberry Kinds. 
Having the Stems upright, feveral rifing from each 
root, fome lafiing but one year, and renewed every 
fpring. 
4. Rubus ideeus —(Rubus of Mount Ida) or Com¬ 
mon Rafpberry Plant. 
An upright, under-fhrubby, deciduous plant, rifing 
with feveral Items,, four or five, to fix or eight feet 
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