Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and ShrubsWebster, Angus D.
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Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
Webster, Angus D.
Flowering shrubs; Flowering trees
R. BIFLORUS.--Himalayas, 1818. A tall-growing species with whitish,
spiny stems, and simple three-lobed leaves that are tomentose on the
under sides. The flowers are thickly produced, pure white, and render
the plant highly attractive, and of great beauty.
R. DELICIOSUS.--This Rocky Mountain Bramble (1870) is a very worthy
species, with three or five-lobed (not pinnate) leaves, and large, pure
white flowers that are each about 2 inches in diameter, and produced in
profusion from the leaf-axils. For ornamental planting this may be
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
half-hardy species, and only suited for planting against sunny walls.
Leaves pinnate, finer than those of the Raspberry. R. r. coronarius,
with semi-double white flowers, is better than the type.
R. SPECTABILIS.--The Salmon Berry. North America, 1827. Grows about 6
feet high, with ternate or tri-lobate leaves that are very thickly
produced. Flowers usually bright red or purplish-coloured, and placed on
long pendulous footstalks. It is of very dense growth, occasioned by the
number of suckers sent up from the roots.
There are also some of the so-called American Brambles well worthy of
attention, two of the best being Kittatiny and Lawton's:
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