VII DESCRIBING RASPBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES AFTER What has been said concerning the methods of describing other fruits, it is hardly necessary to particularize regarding the description of raspberries and blackberries. A few words may be given the subject, however, in recognition of the diversity and importance of these fruits. The design for a description form (Fig. 25) gives an outline of the principal points required. The outline presented in Fig. 26 is engraved from the much more elaborate description form in use in the Division of Pomology, United States Department of Agriculture. Fig. 27 is a photographic reproduction of a description of the Cuthbert raspberry by the West Virginia Experiment Station. The only new point brought into these descriptions of blackberries and raspberries is the mention of the individual drupes. This calls attention to the morphology of the fruits in question. Each blackberry, dewberry, or clinging red of mediums shade varying to bright red round coue meḍime to large deep & smooth bloom varitum to large. mild, not vary abundant. small. firm if not too rife quality rich, aromatic, not acid y Much shove the average Fruit attractive & stands shipment well. .Machet... Oriplo NY State origin PLANT: Season medium Slender with ofere habet GENERAL NOTES: Very Altitude about Wisconsin unitable for planting in other Menomonie, Wis RASPBERRY. Rubus norther stated. 1050 ft. FIG. 27-DESCRIPTION OF RASPBERRY COMPLETE raspberry is, in fact, a bundle of individual fruits held close together. Each one of these individual fruits is a little drupe, having its own single seed surrounded by a soft pericarp, or flesh. It is, in effect, a very small plum. In some varieties these individual drupes are comparatively very large, and stand out from one another almost separately. In other varieties they are small and closely pressed together. 1 |