BLACK RO SEB ER RY .
Black Rosebérryí Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 53, no. T.
This is a singular fruit in its appearance, and
peculiar in its character and flavour. I t is cultivated
in the Garden of the Horticultural Society,
b u t has not been described before. I t was received
there from the Garden of John Williams, Esq. of
Pitmaston, under th e name of the Black Round-
fruited Roseberry, having been raised from the
Common Roseberry impregnated by the pollen of
th e Early Pitmaston Black, from which it derives
the remarkable dark colour of its skin.
May be cultivated in any good garden soil well
exposed to the sun.
I t is a tolerable bearer, ripening about the
middle of the season of the Scarlets, to which
class it belongs.
Leaves dark green. F ootstalks of m oderate
length, slightly hairy. L eaflets middle-sized,
roundish, with obtuse and wide serratures, the
upper surface hairy.
S capes short, with long and numerous spreading
peduncles.
