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for landscape planting, because the foliage and 

 habit of the rose bush are not attractive, the 

 leaves are inveterately attacked by bugs, and the 

 blossoms are fleeting. Some of the wild roses 

 and the Japanese Rosa rugosa, however, have 

 distinct merit for mass effects. Wild bushes 



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are nearly always attractive when planted in 

 borders and groups. They improve in appear- 

 ance under cultivation, because they are given 

 a better chance to grow. In wild nature, there 

 is such a fierce struggle for existence that plants 

 usually grow to few or single stems, and they are 

 sparse and scraggly in form ; but once given all 



