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THE RURAL/ NR W-YORKER 
May 2, 
Ruralisms 
A New Decokative 'Raspberry.— 
Though the genus Rubus is an extensive 
one, widely distributed over the North¬ 
ern Hemisphere, few species are grown 
for ornament. The lovely thornless R. 
deliciosus, of the eastern Rocky Moun¬ 
tain slopes, bearing large single rose¬ 
like flowers of the purest white, is much 
appreciated abroad, but more sparingly 
used in this country. It blooms and 
fruits well on the Rural Grounds, but 
does not attain full size, few canes 
growing over three feet high. The 
roundish leaves are of an attractive 
dark green, and the broad satin-like 
blooms exceedingly pleasing. The berries 
are far from delicious in quality, being 
insipid and particularly seedy. In ap¬ 
pearance they resemble fair-sized dull- 
red raspberries. 
R. odoratus, the thimble-berry or 
thornless purple-flowered raspberry of 
the Allegheny Mountains, is to a limited 
extent planted in parks and large pleas¬ 
ure grounds. It makes a large clump 
of erect smooth-barked shrubby stems, 
live or six feet high, with prominent 
clusters of large red-purple blooms in 
early June. The leaves are broadly 
palmate in form, and hold their deep 
green color well through the season. 
The large berries are rather flat in form 
and are made 
up of many 
dark-red 
drupes, 
each 
containing its 
small seed. They 
arc rather dry, but 
of pleasant flavor. If 
more productive the 
thimblebcrry would doubt 
less find a place as a garden 
fruit. The cloudberry, R. 
Chamcemorus, and salmon berry, 
R.spectabilis, both native to Alaska, 
haveclaims as ornamental plants, but are 
rarely found even in botanical gardens. 
Both bear edible berries of rather agree¬ 
able but peculiar flavors. The canes of 
the latter are slightly thorny. Three 
Asiatic species, the wineberry, R. phce- 
nicolasius, the “strawberry-raspberry,” 
R. rosaefolius, and the hawthorn-leaved 
raspberry, R. crataegifolius, have beauty 
both in fruit and foliage, but are objec¬ 
tionable in that they are not always easy 
to keep within bounds. The strawberry- 
raspberry has large and conspicuous 
white blooms, but the showy berries are 
scarcely considered as edible. The cut- 
leaved bramble of Europe, R. laciniatus, 
has foliage so finely divided as to be 
very ornamental, and palatable berries, 
rather sparingly borne, but is doubt¬ 
fully hardy in the East, and the canes 
are covered with vicious hooked prickles. 
Rubus Innominatus —An extraor¬ 
dinary new bramble, recently discovered 
in the province of Hupeh, Central 
China, is Rubus innominatus, a portion 
of a fruit cluster of which, much re¬ 
duced in size, is shown in Fig. 172. The 
illustration is reproduced from a draw¬ 
ing in the London Gardener’s Chronicle, 
and may be regarded as an accurate 
representation of a part of one of the 
enormous fruit spikes that sometimes 
exceed 18 inches in length. The berries 
are orange-red in color, borne in great 
profusion in September, making a 
highly decorative effect. They are said 
to be edible, resembling the blackberry 
in quality, and promise to be an ac¬ 
quisition to our late dessert fruits. The 
plant is of vigorous growth, sending up 
canes six to eight feet tall in a season. 
The stems are almost devoid of prickles 
and together with the under surfaces of 
the foliage, are covered with thick 
velvety down, of an odd greyish-white 
color. The plants appear to be hardy 
in Northern Europe, and are now offered 
by a few British and Continental nur¬ 
series. Though no Oriental bramble 
has yet proved of great value in North 
America, this promising* newcomer de¬ 
serves ,a tliorough trial. 
ThrI.e New Viburnums. —The Japan 
snowball, catalogued as Viburnum pli- 
catum, ranks with the hardy Hydrangea 
as one of the most popular of all shrubs. 
Our lovely native snowball or Guelder 
rose, V. Opulus sterilis, would be pre¬ 
ferred by many were it not so subject to 
attacks of plant lice or aphids as to be 
a source of distress rather than pleasure 
to the grower. The Asiatic species are 
generally free from insect depredations 
when grown here. Two very promising 
additions soon to be introduced are Vi¬ 
burnum rhytodophyllum and V. utile, 
both from the mountains of Central 
China. The former has broad evergreen 
leaves eight to nine inches long, dark 
green and much channelled on the upper 
surface, but with a thick light-brown 
woolly coat below. The stems grow five 
or six feet high and bear corymbs of 
yellowish-white flowers, followed in Sep¬ 
tember by clusters of good-sized red 
berries. 
Viburnum Utile appears to be a 
hardy reproduction of the prized Lau- 
rustmus or tender evergreen Viburnum 
Tinus of Southern Europe, but is a more 
vigorous grower, with larger pure white 
blooms. It forms a shapely shrub four 
or more feet high with very glossy green 
leaves, and is extremely floriferous, 
every branch being terminated with a 
dense cluster of blooms. The stems are 
covered with down when young, but are 
smooth when mature, and are much 
used by the Chinese for pipe stems. 
The Laurustinus was formerly much 
grown under glass for Winter blooms, as 
it can endure very little frost. The 
small pinkish flowers are freely borne in 
clusters, and are agreeably fragrant. 
Viburnum' Carlesit, native of Corea, 
as also sweet-scented blooms, but they 
are blush white in color, quite 
large in size, and produced in 
great profusion from large Win¬ 
ter buds somewhat in the manner 
of the lilacs or Syringas. The 
shrub is hardy and vigorous, 
sending up many stems to a 
height of nearly six feet. 
‘I’he leaves are oval, bright 
green in color, with woolly 
under surface, and some¬ 
what resemble those of 
Viburnum Lantana, the 
Oriental way- faring 
tree. V. utile is not 
yet on the market 
but V. rhytodophyl 
lum and also \7. 
Carlesii may be 
had from one 
or two Euro¬ 
pean nurser¬ 
ies. 
w. v. F. 
FRUIT CLUSTER OF RUBUS INNOMIN- 
ATUS. Much Reduced in Size. Fig. 172. 
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