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but how long the success will last is doubtful. It is to 

 Asia that botanists are now looking for new species. 

 It is well known that there are some in Japan which 

 are as yet not grown in England, and in 1888 a grand 

 new rose was discovered in Upper Burmah by General 

 Collett, which promises to be a king of roses ; it is a 

 pure white single rose, 6 ins. across the petals, and has 

 been well named R. gigantea. 



The roses of Africa are only found in the north and 

 are the same as the South European species, and I must 

 not stay long with the American species. There are 

 not many, but there are two at least that are worth a 

 place in the garden. The B. lucida forms a close bush 

 with deep-green shining leaves, bright rose flowers, and 

 bright red fruit. Though in America it is almost a 

 marsh plant, it will grow anywhere, and the double 

 form produces the prettiest buds for button-holes that 

 I know. The B. Carolina is not a showy rose, but it 

 flowers late in the autumn, and so is valuable ; it has 

 also some interesting botanical curiosities, on which I 

 cannot now dwell. 



This is not much more than a very slight sketch of 

 the wild roses — not only of the wild roses in general, 

 but of those few which I have named. I wish to show 

 that there is beauty and interest in multitudes of roses 

 which would find no place in a rose show, and with 



