132 DESCRIPTION OF THE ROSE. 



JRosa Spinosissima. The original Scotch Rose is a 

 wild dwarf rose, common in Scotland and the north of 

 England. As it bears seed in great abundance, as these 

 seeds vegetate freely, and as the Scotch gardeners have 

 taken pride in multiplying and improving this native 

 growth of the soil, the number of varieties is nominally 

 immense. Many of them, however, are scarcely to be dis- 

 tinguished the one from the other. The flowers are small, 

 and exceedingly numerous. They bloom earlipr than 

 most roses, and show various shades of crimson, rose, 

 white, and yellow, or rather straw-color; for the yellow 

 Scotch Rose is apparently a hybrid. They are useful for 

 covering banks and forming clumps where masses of 

 bloom are required.. Nothing can exceed their hardiness, 

 and they increase abundant!^ by suckers. A list of named 

 varieties of the Scotch Rose would, from their multiplicity, 

 and want of distinctness, be even more unsatisfactory than 

 the florist's lists of pansies or verbenas. The following, 

 however, are good : 



LA NEIGE is pure white, and very double. GUY MAN- 

 NERING is of a deep blush. SULPHUBEA, LADY BAILLLE, 



