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gorgeous week or two in June, and the lustiness of its growth 

 makes it a fellow even of the wild clematis. No garden can 

 spare the Dorothy Perkins, with its fresh pink flowers, that 

 have also some of the perennial quality, and its long green 

 petals and robustious health. It is an individual opinion 

 that the loveliest of all is the true single brier Jersey Beauty. 

 Is there any plant on which leaves and flower consent 

 together with quite so common a grace ? And if the single 

 flowers do not live with us with the constancy of Gruss an 

 Teplitz, the shiny deep-hued leaves are evergreen. As the 

 crooked fang of the dog-rose announces its hardiness, the 

 length and straightness and sharpness of the Jersey Beauty's 

 arms proclaim it a real 'struggle-for-lifer.' If tea-roses and 

 hybrid perpetuals have multiplied the glory of the garden 

 indefinitely, the companions of the wild briers, British and 

 Continental, have made possible new designs and new 

 structures. They have created, one may say, a new style of 

 architecture, which might be called the hedgerow style. 



We have six, some say seven, wild roses now growing in 

 England, of which the first three in the list are found almost 

 everywhere. 



Rosa canina. The dog-rose. 



Flowering stems long, rather weak and straggling. 

 Leaflets five, or sometimes seven. Flowers pink 

 or white, usually sweet scented, solitary, or three or 

 four together at the end of the branches. 



Flowers summer rather early. 



Foliage varies considerably, either glabrous or 

 more or less downy, sometimes glandular at edges. 



Fruit ovoid without bristles. 



