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FLOWERING RASPBERRY. 
The shrub is from two to five feet in height, branching from the 
woody perennial root-stock; the leaves are from three to five lobecl, 
the lobes pointed and roughly toothed. The leaves are of a dullish 
green, varying in size from several inches to mere bracts. The blos¬ 
soms are often as large as those of the sweet-briar and dog-rose, but 
when first unfolded more compact and cup like. The fruit consists 
of many small red grains, somewhat dry and acid, scarcely tempting 
to the palate, but not injurious in any degree. The shrub is more 
attractive for its flowers than its insipid fruit. We have indeed few 
that are more ornamental among our native plants than the Rubits 
Odoratus. Canada cannot boast of the Rhododendrons and Azaleas 
that adorn the Western and Northern States, but she possesses many 
attractive shrubs that are but little known, which flourish year after 
year on the lonely shores of our inland lakes and marshy beaver- 
meadows, Ledums and Kalmias, with many a fair flower that withers 
unnoticed and uncared for in its solitary native haunts. 
