Nat. Ord. Rosace®. 
N English gardens our beautiful Red-Flowered, Sweet- 
Scented Raspberry is deemed worthy of a place in the 
shrubberies, but in its native country it is passed by 
because it is not an exotic, and therefore regarded as of 
little worth,—Like a prophet it has no honour in its own country.— 
Yet what can be more lovely than its rose-shaped blossoms, from the 
deep purplish-crimson bud wrapped in its odorous mossy calyx, to 
the unfolded flower of various shades of deep rose and paler reddish 
lilac. The flowers of the Red Raspberry derive their pleasant aro¬ 
matic odour from the closely-set coating of short bristly glandular 
hairs, each one of which is tipped with a gland of reddish hue, con¬ 
taining a sweet-scented gum, as in the mossy envelope of the moss- 
rose of the garden. These appendages, seen by the aid of a power¬ 
ful microscope, are objects of exquisite beauty, more admirable than 
rubies and diamonds, living gems that fill us with wonder while we 
gaze into their marvellous parts and glorious colours. 
All through the hot months of June, July and August, a succes¬ 
sion of flowers are put forth at the ends of the branches and branchlets 
of our Sweet Raspberry— 
“ An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds.” 
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