Some very handsome fruits are borne by the various White Beam trees (_Pyrus Aria_ and its allies). Perhaps the best of them is _P. lanata_ (or _Sorbus majestica_), which has flat clusters of bright-red berries. But many of the varieties of _P. Aria_ itself are very attractive. One of the latest additions to this group is _P. alnifolia_, a neat-habited small tree from Japan and China. It has oblong coral-red fruits.
ROSA.--Beauty at fruiting time is an almost proverbial attribute of the Roses. None is more beautiful than our native Dog Rose (_R. canina_). Though in many an English hedgerow, an out-of-the-way corner in many a garden might be given up to the Dog Rose and its varieties for the sake of their wealth of scarlet hips in autumn. _R. tomentosa_ and _R. mollis_ are other red-fruited natives of Britain. All the members of the Scotch Rose group (_pimpinellifolia_) have black fruits. Of exotic species, one of the most valuable is _R. rugosa_; its flat, orange-shaped hips are so abundant and brightly coloured that they make a brilliant picture. _R. microphylla_ has yellow prickly fruits, whilst those of _R. macrophylla_ are pear-shaped and scarlet. The deep-crimson hips of _R. pomifera_, covered with bristly hairs like large gooseberries, are as remarkable as any. Some of the American species, although the fruits are usually small, are handsome, such as _R. nutkana_ and _R. Carolina_. The elongated, pear-shaped fruits of _R. alpina_ and its variety _pyrenaica_ are bright red, and have a pleasant, resinous odour when rubbed.
RAPHIOLEPIS JAPONICA, with its clusters of small, round black berries, should be planted at least against a wall; it is a rather slow-growing evergreen shrub with strawberry-like flowers.
RHAPHITHAMNUS CYANOCARPUS can only be grown outside against a wall, or in Cornwall or similar localities, but where it will succeed it is well worth growing, not only for its pale-blue flowers, but for the bright-blue fruits that follow them.
Some of the RHAMNUS, such as the native _R. catharticus_ and _R. Frangula_, bear abundant crops of purple-black berries.
The dense pyramidal fruit-clusters of the Stag's-horn Sumach (_Rhus typhina_) are often attractive, being covered with crimson hairs. Those of _R. glabra_ are similarly coloured.