90 ( ALFADAR OF FLOWERING 



Rosa 



( The AVsr). in all its multitudinous forms, is a 

 subject in itself, and it is impossible to attempt to touch 

 upon it here ; but there are many briars which might 

 well be included in the shrubbery border, such as the 

 Austrian briars and Lord Pe nzance's new hybrids, which 

 provide a succession of blooms for several weeks in the 

 summer, and 



Rosa rubiginosa 



(Sweet-briar}, Eglantine. Who does not know 

 and love this charming shrub ! ( )ne cannot come 

 within some distance of it, on a warm day, without 

 noticing its presence by the exquisite perfume of its 

 leaves. Few things are more charming than a hedge 

 of it. and when its lovely pink single roses are in bloom 

 it is a ^double joy. We find a charming picture, in 

 Hawthorne's ' Scarlet Letter/ of the sweet-briar bush 

 that grew at the door of the gloomy Xew England 

 jail, ' the one bright object that met the eyes of the 

 unhappy prisoner as she entered.' Shelley also alludes 



to it as 



' The honey wine 



Of the moon unfolded Eglantine, 

 \Yhich fairies catch in hyacinth bowls.' 



It will do well in ordinary garden soil even in 



