"Rubus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... change made in the nomenclature of this order is the slight one of 'rubra' for 'rubus': partly to express true sisterhood with the other Charites; partly to enforce the idea of redness, as characteristic of the race, both in the lovely purple and russet of their winter leafage, and in the exquisite bloom of scarlet ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
... afternoon we landed. The island Pitsiolak, which forms two at high water, is low and flat, overgrown with Empetrum and Rubus Chamoemorus, (Akpik-berries). Quantities of driftwood float about the shores. The jasper occurred here again. This island may be about four or five miles long, and, at low water, is connected with other islands to the north. By the help of our glasses we could perceive woods on the continent, ...
— Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh • Benjamin Kohlmeister and George Kmoch
... rockeries rollers root-crops root cuttings root-galls Rosa rugosa rosa species Rosa Wichuraiana rose acacia rose, culture of rose diseases rose insects rosemary roses, climbing roses in landscapes rows, to make straight Rubus crataegifolius Rubus fruticosus Rubus laciniatus Rubus odoratus Rubus phoenicolasius Rudbeckia laciniata Rudbeckia maxima Ruscus aculeatus ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... and look back to admire the wonderful views to be had there of the great Half Dome, and to enjoy the extreme purity of the water, which in the motionless pools on this stream is almost perfectly invisible; the colored foliage of the maples, dogwoods, Rubus tangles, etc., and the late goldenrods and asters. The voice of the fall was now low, and the grand spring and summer floods had waned to sifting, drifting gauze and thin-broidered folds of linked and arrowy lace-work. When I reached the ...
— The Yosemite • John Muir
... crispum. AEsculus Hippocastanum incisum! asplenifolium. Vitis vinifera apiifolia! laciniosa. Ilex Aquifolium! Rhus Toxicodendron quercifolium. Cotinus. Ervum Lens. Cytisus Laburnum quercifolium! incisum. Rubus fraticosus laciniatus! Pyrcis communis. Cerasus Lauro-cerasus. Apium graveolens! Pimpinella magna. Saxifraga. Crataegus Oxyacantha laciniata. quercifolia! Ribes nigrum. Sambucus nigra laciniata! racemosa ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... consists of only two houses. Passed through one khet, the first cultivated ground we saw after leaving that on the Kamchick; then we came on to a few more Putars, in which limes continue abundant. On these I find no less than three species of Rubus; in those parts on which rice has been cultivated a pretty fringed Hypericum likewise occurs, and these are the most interesting plants that have presented themselves. Our course improved much yesterday; it extended E. by S., and was rather less than ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith |
