. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. w a DWARF RASPBERRY. PLATE 253. RUBUS TRIFLORUS. (ROSE FAMILY.) 'i(/iMC. '"' usuallv Jecumbfttt, /t,>m a s-h-nd/r, somnvhat ttthkly ntotstock; stifiu/n sma/l; Uavrx loHf-fftiolni, pinnately tn/olinlaU, more tarfly quinatr, !i-ajtels th->mbic-o:nl,\ ihatply Sfttate and ufumrely lobtd; ftouvn one lo three on ihoil glandulai peduHiles, smalt; petals five t ^eJeii. while: f>uit imali. " If I wiTc a poet, my .s\vt't.'tt.'st soii^i Sltniihl havf the bouqni't tif siuppcrtiong, W
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. w a DWARF RASPBERRY. PLATE 253. RUBUS TRIFLORUS. (ROSE FAMILY.) 'i(/iMC. '"' usuallv Jecumbfttt, /t,>m a s-h-nd/r, somnvhat ttthkly ntotstock; stifiu/n sma/l; Uavrx loHf-fftiolni, pinnately tn/olinlaU, more tarfly quinatr, !i-ajtels th->mbic-o:nl,\ ihatply Sfttate and ufumrely lobtd; ftouvn one lo three on ihoil glandulai peduHiles, smalt; petals five t ^eJeii. while: f>uit imali. " If I wiTc a poet, my .s\vt't.'tt.'st soii^i Sltniihl havf the bouqni't tif siuppcrtiong, Witli a raey smack in evvry liiU' i-'re>m the savaj-o juice i>f the imiscailine. The russet t)er>iiniiion. tile !)rowii ])apnw, The red wild plum and the sunimer haw, Service-berries and mandrake fruit, Sassafras bark and ^insen^' root Shouhi make my verse pungent ami sweet hy turns; Ami the odor of ^rass and the freshness of ferns, The kernel of nuts and the resins of trees. The neetar distilled hy the wild honeydtees, Should he tlirown in together, to flavor my With the /est t>f the woods and the joy of the birds. Who sin>;s by note, f'-om the pa>;e of a book, So sweet a tune as the l)rawl of a brook.' Shall Homer or .ihall Anacreon Suggest as nmeh as the wind or the sun ? " SAt'KICK THOMPSON, in these vigonms lines, points to the trutl: so many youns poets are apt to forget—that the best inspiration comes in tlie home acre, in its every day Howtrs and fruits, in its sunshine—creator of them all. Among the many delieiovis fruits that we owe to the Rose Family, some of the iitiest arc produced by members of the genus Rubtis—the Raspl)erries and IUack!)erries. In tliis country we have two fine Hhickberries, the high Iilackl)erry and the low or I)ewlK*rry. Two common Raspberries, a red-fruited one, and a black one, are also native. The showy Purple Muli)erry, Rubus Odoratus, is a Raspberry, Init the fruit is insipid. It is a plant of flowers, r
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