GARDEN BOTANY. 



R. SUlphurea, the old YELLOW ROSE. Tall, with scattered straight 

 prickles, glaucous or pale leaves, and sulphur-yellow (double) flowers. 



R. Eglanteria, YELLOW EGLANTINE ROSE. Like a Sweet-Brier, but 

 lower, 3 -5 high, with straight prickles ; leaves deep-green (riot pale, as in 

 the last) ; flowers deep yellow, and sometimes variegated with red, either 

 single or double. 



R. Damascena, DAMASK ROSE. Flowers white or red, single or 

 double ; the parent of many sorts, such as the Red and White Monthly, York 

 and Lancaster, &c. ; distinguished from the next by irs greener bark and larger 

 (curved) prickles, long reftexed sepals, and elongated hips. 



R. centifolia, PROVENCE, CABBAGE, and HUNDRED-LEAVED ROSE. 



Flowers drooping, large, white, blush, or red, mostly full double, and the pet- 

 als curved inwards ; calyx clammy ; the hips short or roundish ; prickles un- 

 equal, the larger ones curved. 



Var. milSCOSa, the Moss-RosES of various sorts, have the clammy 

 glands of the calyx grown out into a moss-like covering. 



R. Gallica, FRENCH ROSE. Flowers red or crimson (sometimes white) ; 

 of many varieties ; differs from the last by the rigid coriaceous leaflets, erect 

 flowers, and spherical hips ; less sweet-scented, and petals more astringent. 



R. alba, WHITE ROSE. Flowers white or with a delicate blush, fragrant; 

 sepals pinnate, reflexed, but conniving and remaining on the oblong hip ; 

 prickles straightish ; leaflets glaucous. Many common varieties. 



R. Indica, TEA ROSE. Came from China, and has furnished endless 

 sorts ; the leaflets are only 3 or 5, ovate, acuminate, thickish, smooth, and 

 shining. NOISETTE Roses are thought to have originated in a cross between 

 this and the Musk Rose. 



R. semperflorens, PERPETUAL CHINA or BENGAL ROSE. Many 

 sorts, usually with red or crimson flowers, with very little fragrance; leaflets 

 as in the last, from which they probably originated, at least in part. 



R. Lawrenceana, FAIRY ROSE. Dwarf, very small-flowered Chinese 

 Roses, often only 6 inches high, which came from the last. 



R. BanksiSJ, BANKSIA ROSE. A slender, tall climbing species from 

 China, cult, in greenhouses, well marked by having no prickles, 3 to 5 lanceo- 

 late leaflets, and very smull (white or buff, violet-scented) flowers, many 

 together in an umbel-like corymb. 



# * Styles cohering in a column which projects oulofthe calyx-cup. 



R. multiflora, MANY-FLOWERED ROSE. A well-known climbing spe- 

 cies, from Japan and China, with 5 or 7 soft and somewhat rugose leaflets, 

 slender scattered prickles, and full corymbs of small flowers, white or pale 

 red, not sweet-scented. The BOURSALT ROSE is a more hardy, climbing, rod 

 Rose, said to come from the mu/tiflora, but probably from a cross with some 

 hardy European species. 



R. moschata, MUSK ROSE. Rambling, but hardly climbing, with rc- 

 vurved prickles; the leaflets lanceolate, pointed, nearly smooth ; flowers white, 

 with a yellowish base to the petals, mostly simple, in umbel-like clusters, very 

 fragrant, especially at evening. 



R. sempervirens, EVERGREEN ROSE. Climbing, hardy at the South, 

 with coriaceous bright-green leaves, curved prickles, and nearly solitary white 

 flowers, not double. The AYRSHIRE ROSE is a more hardy variety, the leaves 

 deciduous. 



10. Cotoneaster VUlgaris is a low shrub, sparingly planted, with the small 

 oval leaves white-downy beneath, and small gremish-v/iiite flowers; the fruit 

 like that of Hawthorns, but including 3 or 4 little seed-like stones. 





