Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . ^ again open. Theberry is then white, but turns bright red within twoor three days, becoming sweet and agreeable ; said tobe somewhat intermediate in flavor between the redand the black raspberry. Seeds were sent from Japanto J. T. Lovett, in the summer of 1887, by Prof. Georgeson, now of Kansas. In 1889 the stockraised from this seed was sold to John Lewis Childs,who introduced it under the name of Japanese Wine-berrj^* The berry is of good size, firm and
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . ^ again open. Theberry is then white, but turns bright red within twoor three days, becoming sweet and agreeable ; said tobe somewhat intermediate in flavor between the redand the black raspberry. Seeds were sent from Japanto J. T. Lovett, in the summer of 1887, by Prof. Georgeson, now of Kansas. In 1889 the stockraised from this seed was sold to John Lewis Childs,who introduced it under the name of Japanese Wine-berrj^* The berry is of good size, firm and hand-some, and owing to its peculiar covering is exemptfrom insect attacks. It has not proved to be ofany real commercial value in the United States,being generally tender and unproductive. It is a *Amer. Gar. 1891, Fig. 28. The strawberry-raspberry. 150 BUSH-FBUITS peculiar and attractive plant, and well worth grow-ing as an ornamental. It had been known in thiscountry and sold under its true botanical name byEllwanger & Barry, and perhaps by other nursery-men, long before its dissemination by Mr. was described in The Gardeners Monthly forJanuary, 1880, and received soon after by the edi-tor, Thomas Meehan, under the name Buhus Hoff-meistericma. The Chinese Baspherry (Buhus cratcegifolius).—This raspberry possesses very little value as a fruit-producing plant, but makes a handsome- ornamentalshrub, and is well worth growing for that flowers are inconspicuous, but its foliage and habitare attractive, and its autumn coloring is often su-perb. It is more fully described among the orna-mental species (page 152) and in the botanical section(Chap. XI.). ORNAMENTAL SPECIES We are accustomed to think of the members of thisfamily only as fruit-producing plants, yet many ofthem
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