placed in the first rank of the family to which it belongs.

R. FRUTICOSUS.--Common Bramble, or Blackberry. Of this well-known native
species there are several worthy varieties, of which the double-flowered
are especially worth notice, blooming as they do in the latter part of
summer. R. fruticosus flore albo-pleno (Double white-flowered Bramble),
and R. fruticosus flore roseo-pleno (Double red-flowered Bramble) are
very pretty and showy varieties, and well worth including in any
collection. There is a pretty variegated-leaved form of the common
Bramble, known as R. fruticosus variegatus.

R. LACINIATUS, Cut-leaved Bramble, might also be included on account of
its profusion of white flowers, and neatly divided foliage.

R. NUTKANUS.--North America, 1826. This has white flowers, but otherwise
it resembles R. odoratus.

R. ODORATUS.--Purple flowering Raspberry. North America, 1700. The
sweet-scented Virginian Raspberry forms a rather dense, upright growing
bush, fully 4 feet high, with large broadly five-lobed and toothed
leaves, that are more or less viscid, sweet-scented, and deciduous. The
leaves are placed on long, hairy, viscid foot-stalks. Flowers in
terminal corymbs, large and nearly circular, purplish-red in colour, and
composed of five broad, round petals. The fruit, which is rarely
produced in this country, is velvety and amber-coloured. It is a very
ornamental species, the ample Maple-like leaves and large flowers
rendering it particularly attractive in summer. The leaves, and not the
flowers as is generally supposed, are sweetly scented.

R. ROSAEFOLIUS.--Rose-leaved Raspberry. Himalayas, 1811. Another