784 ROSA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



RUBUS. 



wanted, it is one of the best for the purpose. 

 There are purple, pink, and white forms, this 

 last being lovely, and quite the best single 

 white Rose of the non-climbers. They are 

 free enough to plant for covert. Rosa Rege- 

 liana and R. kamtschatica are forms of this 

 species. Japan. 



R. SPINOSISSIMA (Burnet Rose]. A pretty 

 native Wild Rose, which will grow and flourish 

 where many Roses fail in the lightest and 



Sweetbrier. Kosa spiriosissima. 



hottest of soils. It is the parent of the Scotch 

 Roses, some of which are so very pretty in like 

 soils ; the creamy white flowers of the wild 

 plant are pretty and fragrant. 



R. WICHURIANA. A distinct and charming 

 Rose, perfectly prostrate in habit, every branch 

 lying flat on the ground, a rapid grower making 

 shoots 12 ft. long in a season, the leaves 

 lustrous green, and flowers standing a little 

 above the mass of creeping stems, pure white, 

 i to 2 in. across. For rapidly covering sunny 

 banks nothing could be more charming than 

 this beautiful Japanese Rose, also for the bolder 

 kind of rock-garden drooping over the larger 

 rocks. It is hardy so far as recent winters 

 entitle one to judge, and easily propagated by 

 cuttings or division. 



R. sinica is a large, single, white-flowered, 

 climbing species from China or Japan. R. 

 gigantea, the giant of single white Roses, lately 

 introduced from India, is of doubtful hardiness, 

 otherwise it would be a great addition. R. 

 Beggeriana, a North American kind, of lowly 

 growth, has white starry flowers. R. Woodsi, 

 a garden form of R. blanda, has rosy-pink 

 flowers, and continues blooming till stopped by 

 sharp frost. R. pisocarpa, from California, 

 makes a straggling bush, with flowers of medium 

 size and bright red, are well worthy of a 

 place in the rock-garden. R. berberifolia 



Hardyi has flowers like those of a Cistus, rich 

 yellow in colour, with a crimson blotch at the 

 base of each petal, but wants heat and bright 

 sun. Hebe's Lip is a garden form, but a pretty 

 single Rose with a stout bushy habit of growth, 

 and large, creamy white blossoms that have a 

 distinct Picotee edge of red around the petals. 



The above is a selection mostly of the 

 best Wild Roses known to us for the garden 

 or shrubberies and fences near the garden. 

 There are many Wild Roses inhabiting 

 northern and temperate countries, and 

 many that have never been in cultivation 

 that are very beautiful and deserving 

 of it. It is to be hoped now that the 

 increased cultivation of these beautiful 

 things will lead to further knowledge of 

 them. 



WILD SPECIES OF THE ROSE IN 

 CULTIVATION. According to the Kew 

 list the following w^ild species are in cul- 

 tivation there, and the number deserves 

 to be added to, as no doubt there are 

 many wild kinds in the three continents 

 of the northern world which have never 

 been introduced. 



R. acicnlaris, Siberia; agrestis, Europe; alba. 

 Europe, &c. ; alpina, Europe ; aneinontefJora, China ; 

 (trkansana, U. States ; Banksice, China ; beggcricuui, 

 Asia ; blanda, N. America ; bracteata, China ; byzan- 

 tina, Eastern Europe ; California*, Western N. 

 America ; canina, North Temperate Zone ; Carolina. 

 N. America ; centifolia, Orient ; cinnamoinea, North 

 Temperate Zone ; dainascena, Eastern Europe, Orient ; 

 Engclinannii, Western N. America \fedtschenkoana, 

 Central Asia; Fendlerii, New Mexico ; ferrug inca. 

 Mountains of Europe ; foliolosa, N. America ; forti<- 

 neana, China ; gallica, S. Europe ',&igantea, Burmah ; 

 Hardii, garden origin ; henrisphcerica, Persia and Asia 

 Minor; hibernica, England and Ireland; hispida, 

 garden origin ; humilis, N. America ; hybrida, Europe ; 

 incarnata, France ; indica, China ; involucrata, India ; 

 involuta, Europe ; Itevigata, China ; laxa, Siberia : 

 leschenaultiana, India ; lucida, N. America ; httca. 

 Orient ; macrophylla, India ; micrantha, Europe ; 

 microphylla, China ; inollis, Europe ; moscliata, S. 

 Europe to India ; multiflora, China and Japan ; nitida, 

 N. America ; noisettiana, garden origin ; mitkana, 

 N. America ; phanicea, Orient ; pisocarpa, Western 

 N. America ; potnifera, Europe ; repens, Europe ; 

 rubella, Europe ; rubiginosa, Europe ; rugosa, Japan ; 

 sempen'irens, S. Europe ; sericea, India ; setigera, N. 

 America ; simplicifolia, Orient ; spinosissima, Europe 

 ! and Siberia ; stylosa, S. England ; toinentosa, Europe ; 

 I ivatsoniana, ]a.pan;iuel>fa'a.na, Himalaya \wichuriana, 

 ' China and Japan ; xanthina, Persia, Afghanistan, &c. 



ROSMAEINUS (Rosemary}. A well- 

 known shrub, R. officinalis, is not hardy 

 enough everywhere, but in the embellish- 

 ment of dry, warm, rocky banks it is 

 useful ; all like its fragrance, and the 

 flowers are pretty when the plant is grown 

 on dry soils. Where it perishes in winter 

 in the open ground it may be grown 

 against a wall. Cuttings and seed. 



RUBUS (Bramble^). Trailing and 

 often prickly shrubs, some of the best from 

 America ; the finest of these being the 

 Rocky Mountain Bramble (R. deliciosus), 

 quite unlike an ordinary Bramble, 

 being without spines or prickles. It 

 i makes a rounded spreading bush about 



