64: FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



from seven to nine small, roundish leaflets. The 

 Japanese rose is remarkable for its superb, dark- 

 green, bushy foliage ; the single flowers are white or 

 pink and the large nearly globular fruit orange-red. 

 This rose blooms in early sum- 

 mer, but its great charm, 

 I think, is its luxuri- 

 ant, ornamental foli- 

 age. The trailing 

 rose* (JRosa Wi- 

 churaiana) is ex- 

 tensively planted 

 among the stony 

 borders and rocky 

 ledges of parks ; it creeps 

 rapidly over the ground and sends 

 out in one season stems fully ten 

 feet long ; it bears single white flow- 

 ers ; the tiny thick leaflets are shining 

 dark green. This rose, which is also Japanese, is 

 one of the most charming of the single kind in cul- 

 tivation; it is remarkably hardy. It is quite com- 

 mon on the borders of the roads in the Arnold ar- 

 boretum. Yery closely related to the roses are the 

 whitethorns or hawthorns. Only three or four spe- 



Dog Kose. 



* Catalogued and sold under the name of Memorial Rose by 

 Peter Henderson & Co., seedsmen, New York. 



