. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2t96. Rubus ros^folius. One of the best of the flowering Kubuses. 2195. Rubus crat^Eifolius. (X J^). See No. 9. In the North it often kills to the ground, but the strong young recurving canes and white-bottomed foliage make it a handsome plant. 14. ellipticus, Smith (R. fUvus, Ham.). Fig. 2199. Tall and erect o
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2t96. Rubus ros^folius. One of the best of the flowering Kubuses. 2195. Rubus crat^Eifolius. (X J^). See No. 9. In the North it often kills to the ground, but the strong young recurving canes and white-bottomed foliage make it a handsome plant. 14. ellipticus, Smith (R. fUvus, Ham.). Fig. 2199. Tall and erect or nearly so (6-10 ft.), the canes stout and densely beset with straight red-brown hairs and bearing a few stout, short, nearly straight prickles; Ifts. 3, the terminal one much the largest, ovate to orbicular- ovate, not lobed, evenly doubly serrate, thickish, soft pubescent and strongly veined and prickly on the mid- rib beneath' fls. white, 3^ in. or less across, in small, raany-fld. clusters: berry the size of a common Rasp- berry, yellow, of good quality. Himalayas.—Grown in southern Fla., where it is said to be the only Raspberry that perfects its fruit. BB. Plant not red-hairy all over. c. Red Raspberries. 15. IdEEUS, Linn. European Raspberry. An erect, mostly stiff grower, propagating by suckers, the canes light-colored and bearing nearly straight slender prickles; Ifts. ovate, white beneath, irregularly toothed and notched, usually somewhat plicate or wrinkled: flower-clusters mostly long and interrupted, most of the peduncles dividing into two or three pedicels, the pedi- cels, as also the flowering shoots, petioles and midribs, finely pubescent, but not glandular, and sparsely fur- nished with firm recurved prickles: fls. small, white; calyx pubescent: fruit oblong or conical, dark red, yel- low or whitish, produced more or less continuously throughout the season. Europe and Asia.— Named for Mt. Ida, in Greece. Early introduced into this country, but now nearly dr
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