32 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



R. omissa. — An erect bush with pink flowers and grey, softly 

 pubescent leaves. A pretty and interesting Rose. 



R. pisocarpa. — A rather straggling Californian bush, flowering 

 in corymbs. The leaves are glabrous and the flowers 

 pink or red. 



R. Pissardi. — A handsome Persian Rose with white bloom. 



R. rubiginosa. — The native Sweet-brier. In the type form 

 an indispensable Rose. The beautiful Penzance hybrids 

 derived from it should be in every garden. 



R. rugosa. — The Japanese Ramanas Rose. One of the 

 hardiest of Roses. There are good garden forms and 

 hybrids. The hips are the showiest of any known 

 Rose. 



R. rubrifolia. — An European Rose with small red flowers and 

 red stems and leaves ; very near R. alpina. 



R. sempervirens. — A wild Italian Rose, the parent of many of 

 our older cluster and rambling Roses. The leaves are 

 small and polished and endure through the greater part 

 of the winter. 



R. setigera. — The latest to bloom of the wild Roses. From 

 North America. Flowers magenta-rose. It makes a 

 good pillar Rose. 



R. simplicifolia = berberifolia. — A small and tender yellow 

 Rose, requiring a sheltered place against a warm wall. 



R. spmosissitna. — The native Burnet Rose, type of the well- 

 known Scotch Briers. 



R. wichuriana. — A traiUng Japanese species with small, 

 polished, deep green leaves and white flowers. Beauti- 

 ful hybrids are now being de "" from it. 



