January 16, 1904. 
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Views and Reviews. 
The Strawberry -Raspberry. 
About 1895 a plant was introduced from 
Japan and was most often mentioned under 
the name of Strawberry-Raspberry—a name 
that was very likely to catch on, by reason, of 
tbe glamour attached to the name, which was 
intended to create an impression that the 
newcomer was a hybrid between tbe plants 
named. It lias taken a, long time to dis¬ 
abuse' the public mind that it is neither a. 
Strawberry nor a Raspberry, nor a hybrid 
between the two. About two years ago. we 
discussed the question and shewed that it was 
no hybrid at all, but. a. wild plant bailing 
from Japan. Tbe wild specimens wei have 
seen were collected on Mount Fudzi, Nippon, 
Japan, and Fudzi-Yama, Yokohama, in 
Japan, both of which names may refer tci tbe 
same place. In any case', we distinctly 
showed that it. was a mountain plant, and, 
coming from some elevation, it has proved 
perfectly hardy in, tbe southern and homei 
counties of England at least, and may for 
tbe matter of that prove hardy in most parts 
of Britain when it. lias been tried. 
For some time after it was introduced to 
this country cultivators and writers have 
attached different botanical names to it, 
which, curiously enough, have been, wrong, 
because the names belonged to quite a dif¬ 
ferent. species, and it would seem as if it was 
impossible for such people to adopt a dif¬ 
ferent. name when on.ee it had been, estab¬ 
lished for a, year or two in gardens. One of 
the names 1 attached to it, was Rubus palmar 
tus, but that applies to a Bramble with a, 
loibed leaf, and therefore very different from 
the pinnate leaf of the plant under notice. 
More recently it has been named R. sorbi- 
folius in gardens, but, that name is also- 
appropriated by a very different species. It 
has also been considered a variety of S. rosae- 
folius, and as that is, a plant that is wide¬ 
spread in nature and somewhat variable, it 
might, well come under that species as a well- 
marked form or variety. 
It has, ho wever, been named an d descr ibed 
under the name of R. illecehrosus. by Dr. W. 
0. Fockein 1899 (in “Verb. Naturwiss. Ver. 
Bremen,” Vol. XVI., page 276). Attention 
V i as been directed to this by Mr. Alfred 
Rehder, of the Arnold Arboretum, in 
“ American, Gardening.” Dr. Focke has 
monographed the genus Rubus so that all the 
well-known species should presently be de¬ 
scribed under their proper names. It is 
more than likely that some of the so-called 
species like R. fruticosus will be found to 
include more than one really distinct type. 
It has hitherto been the habit to lump under 
one name plants that are very distinct 
botanically, although appearing on casual 
examination, to be much the same thing. If 
the exotic Brambles vary so greatly as doi the 
British species, and yet hear an outward re- 
S'embl'anee to one another, it is more than 
probable that several species will have to be 
made out, of some of them. 
As a popular name the Strawberry-Rasp¬ 
berry may answer the purpose of recognising 
the plant by growers and others, but the 
sooner the notion becomes exploded that it 
is a hybrid the better. We could recall a 
very similar instance in which a compound 
name might have been used—namely, in the 
case of Fragaria, indica, which has leaves 
closely corresponding to. those of a Straw¬ 
berry, while it produces runners bearing 
young plant-let® from the nodes very much in 
the same, way as. Potent-ilia, anserina, and, like 
that, the flowers produced on these runners 
are yellow. Then when the fruit ripens it 
has a fleshy or pulpy receptacle, as is proper 
to a, Strawberry, but the little fruits, 
popularly termed seeds, have a. fleshy coat, so 
that in a measure they resemble the drupels 
of a Raspberry. Thus we have in cnei plant 
a combination of characters that recall the 
character of the Strawberry, Potentilla and 
the Raspberry. The yellow flowers- and the 
somewhat fleshy achenes are characters that 
do- not -accord well with a, true Strawberry, 
but the distinction is of minor importance, 
although they are such that might well lead 
to- confusion if a popular catch name com¬ 
bined from the names of the three plants 
mentioned were to be used. 
The Strawberry-Raspberry certainly came® 
nearest Rubus resaefolius of anv other which 
we have seen, bur its habit, of growth is 
different from the forms winch come from 
the Himalayas, China, the Malaya, and even 
from some parts of Japan, where R. rosae- 
fodius produces tall canes winch bear flowers 
in trusses along their sides after the same 
fashion, as the Raspberry. On the other 
hand, R. illecebrosus produces short annual 
stems- hearing one or a few flowers on the 
top, as we- described in The Gardening 
World for March 1st, 1902. 
Hitherto- the elder and better-known R. 
rosaefolius- lias been grown either in the 
greenhouse or a stove in this country, and 
probably is not hardy, although we are not. 
aware that any experiments by wav of 
