Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . Piper writes that In deep woods it never fruits, but onopen, rocky places bears an abundance of sour red berries. Theplant is prostrate, like B. vitifolius. 8. R. CRAT^GiFOLius, Bunge. Chinese Raspberry. Stems shrubby, upright or drooping, 3-6 feet (1-2 meters) high,armed with few straight prickles; leaves glabrate, cordate, ovate,acute, 3-5 lobed, lower one smallest, middle lobe long, acuminate,often narrower at base, lateral lobes oblique, all dou
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . Piper writes that In deep woods it never fruits, but onopen, rocky places bears an abundance of sour red berries. Theplant is prostrate, like B. vitifolius. 8. R. CRAT^GiFOLius, Bunge. Chinese Raspberry. Stems shrubby, upright or drooping, 3-6 feet (1-2 meters) high,armed with few straight prickles; leaves glabrate, cordate, ovate,acute, 3-5 lobed, lower one smallest, middle lobe long, acuminate,often narrower at base, lateral lobes oblique, all doubly serrate,petioles and veins beneath armed with scattering, minute, re-curved prickles; stipules linear, scarious, leafy shoots terminatingin a several-flowered, cymose cluster; flowers white, nearly halfan inch broad, inconspicuous; calyx slightly pubescent, lobestriangular, acuminate, bearing glandular tipped hairs along themargin; petals small; fruit orange-scarlet, nearly hemispherical(Fig. 53). Original distribution.—Manchuria, Northern China and Japan,A further account of this species appears in Chapter VI MATBEBBY 311. Fig. cratcegifolius (X^s). 9. R. MICROPHYLLUS, Linn. f. B. palmatus, Thunb. Mayberry. Spreading bush, 4 or 5 feet (12-15 decimeters) high, with shortstout prickles; leaves small, dark green above, somewhat lighterbeneath, silky pubescent on the veins beneath, 3-5-cleft, thelobes very narrow, acuminate, doubly and sharply serrate, centrallobe much longer than the lateral ones; flowers three fourths ofan inch (20 mm.) broad; sepals narrow, acuminate; petalsbroadly ovate; fruit small, of little value. Japan.—Said by Luther Burbank to have entered into hybridswhich he considers valuable; but otherwise unknown in this coun-try. The fruit is occasionally eaten by the Japanese. 3i: BUSH-FRUITS 10. R. ARCTicus, Linn. Stem low, herbaceous, sometimes dioecious, slightly pubescent,mostly erect, 1-2-flowered; leaves trifoliolate; leaflets rhombic-ovate
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