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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



rock-garden, very like the Austrian Briars in 

 general efiect, but freer in growth and flower. 

 Its flowers are small (only about i in. across), 

 of a beautiful golden yellow, with deeper 

 spots at the base of each petal. The stems 

 are dwarf, slender, and very prickly, wreathed 

 with flowers for a good part of their length. 

 It flowers annually on the rockery at Kew. 



R. gigaiiiea, the giant of single white Roses, 

 lately introduced from India, is of doubtful 

 hardiness and uncertain in flower, otherwise it 

 would be a great addition. Its faintly fragrant 

 creamy-white flowers are 5 in. or more across. 

 R. Beggeriaiia, a North American kind, of 

 lowly growth, has white starry flowers. R. 

 ll'oodsi, a garden form of /v". blanda, has rosy- 

 pink flowers, and continues blooming till 

 stopped by sharp frost. R. pisocarpa, from 

 California, makes a straggling bush, with flow- 

 ers of medium size and bright red, and is well 

 worthy of a place in the rock-garden. R. 

 berbcrifolia Hardyi has flowers like those of a 

 Cistus, rich yellow in colour, with a crimson 

 blotch at the base of each petal, but wants 

 heat and bright sun. Hebe's Lip, a garden 

 form of it, is a pretty single Rose with a stout 

 bushy habit of growth, and large, creamy white 

 blossoms that have a distinct Picotee edge of 

 red around the petals. 



The above is a selection mostly of the 

 best Wild Roses known to us for the garden 

 or shrubberies and fences near the garden. 

 There are many Wild Roses inhabiting 

 northern and temperate countries, and 

 many that have never been in cultivation, 

 that are very beautiful and deserving 

 of it. It is to be hoped now that the 

 increased cultivation of these beautiful 

 things will lead to further knowledge of 

 them. 



Wild Species of the Rose in 

 Cultivation.— According to the Kew 

 list, the following wild species are in cul- 

 tivation there, and the number deserves 

 to be added to, as no doubt there are 

 many wild kinds in the three continents 

 of the northern world which have never 

 been introduced. 



R. ackularis, Siberia; agrcstis, Europe; alba, 

 Europe, &c. ; alfiina, Europe ; anemomeflorn, China ; 

 arkansnna, U. States ; Banksice, China ; beggeriana, 

 Asia ; blanda, N. America ; bracteata, China ; byznu- 

 tina. Eastern Europe ; californica, Western N. 

 America ; canitia, North Temperate Zone ; Carolina, 

 X. America ; centi/olia. Orient ; cinnaviomea. North 

 Temperate Zone ; dainasccna. Eastern Europe, Orient ; 

 Engclmannii, Western N. h.mmc^\/edischenkoana. 

 Central Asia ; Fcndlerii, New Mexico ; ferrnginea. 

 Mountains of Europe ;y2>//o/o.va, N. hm^x\c?^\ /ortu- 

 ncana. China ; gallica, S. Europe •,gigantea, Burmah ; 

 Hardii, garden origin ; hemisphcerica, Persia and Asia 

 Minor ; kibemica, England and Ireland ; hispida, 

 garden origin ; liumilis, N. America ; hybrida, Europe ; 

 incarnata, France ; indica, China ; imiolucrata, India ; 

 involuta, Europe ; Icevigata, China ; laxa, Siberia ; 

 Icschenaiiltiana, India ; lucida, N. America ; hitca. 

 Orient ; macrophylla, India ; micraniha, Europe ; 

 microphylla, China ; mollis, Europe ; moschata, S. 

 Europe to India ; tmiliifJora, China and Japan ; nitida, 

 N. .Vmerica ; noisettiana, garden origin ; nutkana, 

 N. America ; pha'nicea. Orient ; pisocarpa. Western 

 N. America ; poini/cra, Europe ; ripens, Europe ; 



rubella, Europe ; rubiginosa, Europe ; rugosa, Japan ; 

 scmpemircns, S. Europe ; sericea, India ; setigera, N. 

 America ; siiiiplici/olia. Orient ; spinosissima, Europe 

 and Siberia ; stylosa, S. England ; ionicntosa, Europe ; 

 luatsoniana, }a.pa.n;7i'ebbiana, Himalaya ■,ivickuriana, 

 China and Japan ; xanthina, Persia, Afghanistan, &c. 



ROSMARINUS {Rosemary).— K well- 

 known shrub, R. officinalis, is not hardy 

 enough everywhere, but in warm, rocky 

 banks in our southern gardens it is 

 useful ; all like its fragrance, and the 

 flowers are pretty when the plant is grown 

 on dry soils. Where it perishes in winter 

 in the open ground it may be grown 

 against a wall. There are several distinct 

 forms, one of erect habit known as pyra- 

 midalis ; one with large pale flowers, and 

 one with darker blue flowers ; one with 

 variegated foliage ; and one, the best of 

 all, known as prostrata, with quite a 

 creeping habit and narrow leaves, very 

 pretty for sunny walls or sheltered ledges 

 of the rock-garden. Cuttings and seed. 



RUBUS {Brambles). — Trailing and 

 often prickly shrubs, some of the best from 

 America ; the finest of these being the 

 Rocky Mountain Bramble {R. deliciosiis\ 

 quite unlike an ordinary Bramble, 

 being without spines or prickles. It 

 makes a rounded spreading bush about 



Rubus deliciosus. 



4 ft. high, and in June bears snow-white 

 flowers about the size of Dog Roses, and 

 like them in form. It is hardy in most 

 gardens where the soil is light, and in cold 

 districts may be grown against a wall, 

 which it quickly clothes with a beautiful 

 growth, and flowers more abundantly than 

 as a bush. Always select for it the sun- 

 niest and warmest place in the garden. 



R. odoratus, with large-lobed lea\es, 

 and from June till August large clusters 



