196 DESCRIPTION OF THE ROSE. 



best of the group. There is a hybrid rose raised by M. 

 Hardy, of the Luxembourg Garden, and known by the 

 name of BERBEEIFOLIA HAKDII. From its resemblance 

 to this division, it is commonly placed with it, though 

 not properly belonging here. It is a pretty rose, with 

 bright yellow flowers, marked with a chocolate spot 

 in the centre; but it is not hardy, nor is it easy of 

 culture. 



Mosa Lc&mgata. No foreign work on the Rose in- 

 cludes this species among those held worthy of culture ; 

 yet in our Southern States, where it is naturalized, it is 

 singularly beautiful. In the North it is not hardy, though 

 the root commonly survives the winter, while the stern 

 and branches are destroyed. It comes originally from 

 China. Its shoots and leaves resemble those of the Bank- 

 sia Rose ; the former being long, pendulous, and graceful, 

 and the latter of the most vivid green. Its flowers are 

 single, very large, and of the purest waxy white, in the 

 midst of which appears the bright yellow of the clustering 

 stamens. Its long, slender, tapering buds are unsurpassed 



