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Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
high—the Hems prickly; leaves quinate-pinnated and 
ternate, {middling, light-green ) of five and three fo- 
lioles; petioles or foot-ftalks channelled; purple and 
white flowers, fucceeded by clufters of fine, large, 
eatable berries; July, Auguft, and September.—Na¬ 
tive of England, &c. in woods. ( Any common, fer¬ 
tile foil-) 
Varieties. —Purple-flowered Rafpberry. 
White-flowered Rafpberry. 
Red-fruited Rafpberry. 
White-fruited Rafpberry. 
Twice-bearing White and Red Rafp¬ 
berry, producing two crops of fruit 
annual!-/; the firft in July and Au¬ 
guft, the fecond in September. 
Black-fruited Rafpberry. 
Prickly-ftalked Rafpberry. 
Smooth-ftalked or Cane Rafpberry, of 
ftronger and taller growth. 
Great, Yellow, Antwerp Rafpberry, 
growing with very tall, ftrong. Items; 
and large, yellowifh fruit. 
This fpecies, Ruhus ida-us, and different varieties, 
are the principal forts of the Rubus family, to culti¬ 
vate for their fruit; and for which, they demand cul¬ 
ture in every garden, the berries being large and 
agreeable to eat both in their natural growth, and for 
tarts, Rafpberry-jamm, and for making the diftilled 
liquor, called Rafpberry, &c. 
5. Rubus odcratus —Odoriferous or Virginia Flower¬ 
ing Rafpberry. 
An upright, larger, deciduous, fhrubby plant, with 
ftrong Items, five, to fix or feven feet high—the Item 
unarmed or fmooth, with numerous, Ample leaves, 
(large, light-green) palmated or hand-lhape; and 
many large, purple, ornamental flowers, and fmaller, 
black fruit, of but little flavour.—Native of Virgi¬ 
nia and Canada. {Any common foil.) 
6. Rubus occidentalis —Occidental or Weftern Ame¬ 
rican Rafpberry. 
An upright, deciduous, ftirubby plant—the ftems 
prickly, with ternate leaves, ( middling) of three, or 
fometimes five lobes, downy on the under fide; pe¬ 
tioles or foot-ftalks round 5 and fmail, black fruit.— 
Native of America. ( Any foil.) 
7. Ru e us canadenfis —Canada, fmooth Rafpberry. 
An upright, deciduous, ftirubby plant, with purple 
fiems—the items unarmed or fmooth, digitated or fin¬ 
gered leaves, ( middling) of ten, five, and three 
fmail, fpear-fhape lobes.—Native of Canada. {Any 
common foil.) 
All thefe fpecies of Rubus are hardy, fhrubby 
plants, that will grow in any common foil and fitua- 
tion; are cultivated in gardens, fome, or all the forts, 
for variety and ornament in fhrubberies, borders, &c. 
and one fort, Commoj Rafpberry, and its feveral va¬ 
rieties, is in the moft general efteem and cultivation 
for their production of fine eatable fruit, being larger 
and more agreeably-flavoured than that of any of the 
other fpecies; though the fruit of all the fpecies of 
Rubus, both of the Bramble and Rafpbcn-y kinds, is 
alfo eatable, even the Common Wild Bramble, or 
Black-berries of the hedges; but all greatly inferior 
to the Common Rafpberries, fo that the other forts 
are principally admitted for variety, to diverfify fhrub¬ 
beries, &c. as alfo fome varieties, or all the forts of 
the Common Rafpberry occafionally. 
But the Rubus ideeus, or Common Rafpberry, and 
moft of its varieties, are the moft valuable in culture 
for their abundant crops of excellent 'berries, both of 
the Red and White forts; ripening in July and Auguft; 
and the twice-bearing fort produces both in that fea- 
fon and a fecond fmail crop in September; and the 
great Yellow Antwerp Rafpberry, introduced within 
thefe few years in the Englifh gardens, grows much 
ftronger and taller than any of the other varieties of 
the fame fpecies, and the fruit moft large and fine, 
ripening about the fame time as the others; all of 
w'hich are hardy to grow in any common, fertile foil 
of a garden: fhould have an open fituation in the full 
fun; are commonly planted in rows, four and a half 
or five feet afunder, for full plantations, and occa¬ 
fionally planted finglyin borders, &c. 
AH the Rafpberry kinds grow with upright ftems; 
generally feveral from each root, riling annually in 
the fpring or fummer, produce fruit the following fum- 
mcr, and decay the enfuing winter, for the fame in¬ 
dividual ftems never bear but once, and always die 
in the winter after, being previoufly fucceeded by a 
production of frelh ftems in the preceding fummer, 
for fucceflional bearers the enfuing year; as they al¬ 
ways bear the fruit on the young or year-old ihoots of 
the former fummer’s production, which, rifing abun¬ 
dantly in fuckers immediately from the continuing 
roots, in the fpring, attain full growth the fame year, 
bear fruit the fummer following, principally upon 
fmail, lateral fnoots of the fame year, ariflng from 
the fides of the main ftems; and the whole decaying 
down to the root in winter, as before obferved, a 
proper fucccflion of young ftems being produced iu 
fummer, the old ones mull be cut out to the bottom, 
in winter cu fpring, to make room for young fiupply, 
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