MISCELLANEOUS OUTDOOR ROSES 



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Fig. 263. ROSA WICHURATANA IN A WHOLLY APPROPRIATE SETTING. Where there 



are banks, rocky slopes or steep bluffs to be covered, this Rose will do the trick 



no matter what the soil nor how little attention is given after planting 



Occasionally we have visitors in the store ask the name of this 

 Rose, having seen it in full bloom somewhere. So delighted are they 

 with it that they then and there place an order for a few plants for 

 delivery the following Fall or Spring. 



ROSA SETIGERA 



Among other Roses used by the landscape gardener for mass 

 plantings, for slopes, or on the outskirts of native shrubbery plant- 

 ings, is the Prairie Rose (Rosa setigera) which, by the way, should 

 be far more extensively used even by florists who do more or less 

 landscape work in and around country towns. There are always 

 occasions when one can advantageously break away from the 

 stiff and formal. Other sorts adapted for heavy plantings, where 

 little or no cultivation is being or can be given after planting, are 

 Rosa blanda, R. Carolina (the Swamp Rose), R. lucida and R. humilis. 

 Of course, not every retail grower has use for all of these, yet it 

 doesn't hurt him to know about them; maybe some day this knowl- 

 edge will come in handy, as it has in the writer's case. 



RURBER PLANT 



See Ficus 



