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Title: How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Peterson, Maude Gridley, b. 1871
Subjects: Plants Fruit Leaves
Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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directions from the central root andsend up new shoots in fresh soil. It is commonto find the Raspberry growing in patches by theroadside, along fence rows, or in corners. Our Wild Red Raspberry is the ancestor ofthe various cultivated varieties. The cultivatedWhite Raspberry is considered a sport. Rubus neglectus, or Purple Wild Raspberry,is an intermediate form between the Wild RedRaspberry and the Black Raspberry. It is aplant with comparatively few bristles or prickles.The fruit is borne on upright stems, is dark red,and nearly hemispherical. In cultivation thefruit is yellow. DWARF RASPBERRY Rubus Americanus. Rubus triflorus Rose Family Fruit. — This fruit resembles in appearancethat of the Low Blackberry. It differs in color,being dark red when ripe, and also in the sepa-ration of the few, two to five, grains which com-pose it from the receptacle, when the fruit ismature. Each grain is a juicy drupe inclosinga single hard-coated seed. The fruit is borne ona slender stem. July.
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Dwarf Raspberry (Rubus Americanus)51 52 HOW TO KNOW WILD FRUITS Leaves. — The compound leaves consist offrom three to five thin, nearly smooth leaflets.These are coarsely and doubly serrate. Flowers. — The flower cluster grows on a slen-der stem and consists of from one to three small-ish white flowers. The sepals and petals areoften six or seven in number, while those ofthe other species number but five. This vine is ascending or trailing, slightlywoody and hairy, but has no prickles. The fruitis borne on upright stems. It favors moistwoods, and ranges from Labrador as far southas New Jersey and westward. VIRGINIA OR SCARLET STRAWBERRYFragaria Virginiana Rose Family Fruit. — The receptacle of the ripened fruithas become much enlarged, pulpy, sweet, andscarlet in color; and bears, sunken in pits overits surface, several achenes. The lobed calyxsubtends the aggregate fruit. The fruits of thisspecies are globular. They grow on droopingstems, in small clusters, and are overtopped b

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