15G0 ROSCOEA 



purple, blue or yellow fls. terminating the leafy stems. 

 Lvs. lanceolate or oblong: fls. in terminal, usually few- 

 fld. spikes; bracts persistent, l-fld. ; calyx loug-tubular. 

 slit down one side; corolla-tube slender, as long as 

 calyx or longer; lateral segments spreading; lateral 

 staminodes oblanceolate, petaloid; lip large, cuneate, 

 deflexed, 2-cleft or emarginate. 



purptlrea, Sm. Stem %-l ft. high, with 5-6 sessile, 

 lanceolate, sheathing lvs. about in. Ions: tls. ft-w, pur- 

 ple, rarely lilac or white, in ;i ^' - ::■ lil, , iiji ■ i.i in - 

 one at a time in midsummer. 1 I '' i' 



L. B.C. 1.5:1404. G.C. III. 8:r.»l . i , , . i i . 

 cies of the genus. Var. Sikkim^Mlbl^, Ihii. I.Ia.- . /i . 

 Silckimensis, Van Tubergen), is sajU lu .liii.-r iii li.n iiirf 

 the epiphytic habit and more numerous tis. ot adittVrLut 

 shade. Consult G.C. III. 8:221. p. w. Barclay. 



ROSE 



acters are reproduced in the Perpetual.s, and 

 blended together, give rise to endless contusior 

 the following scheme is merely suggestive and 

 be studied in comparison with the botanical ( 

 cation (see page 1548). 



American Rose culture, so far as garden varici 

 concerned, can hardly be said to have found it 

 yet. Our growers are to-day striving to overi-< 

 short-lived character of the blooms, so as to ini]" 



being 

 i; thus 

 should 

 lassifi- 



ROSE 



lone for other II. 

 plished for the 

 future will havi 

 ■<t;inr-ps in the s 



\iiierican Rose of the 

 . .■ [..l to suit the circum- 

 iiai ihu American carnation 



R0S.J 3i-..i.l:.l,- l;..l..Tl 11 II I !■■. ■'■ 



later editions; "Manu n I: ■ ■ 



Prince, New York, l.H In, i . ', ■ - 



New York, 1847, and In • ■ i n n 



Culturist," New York, 1 > .n . I; : i I 



Parkman, Boston, l«li(l; "TIh- K..-. . li. 



Louis, 1882; "The Rose," H. H. Kllwani 



1882, 2d ed. 1892; "Secrets of It..-.- '' 



Hatton, Huntington, N. Y., Ib'.ll. F..r 



books in all languages, see "Bildin^'ralia de la Rii 



by Vergara, Madrid, 1892. 



Following are the equivalents of some of the comi 

 names of Roses: 



York. 

 \V. .1. 

 Rose 



Banks Rose 

 Bengal 



Horticultural Classification oS Koses.-The garden 

 classification of Roses presents considerable difficulty, 

 as the several groups have been so nmch mixed that 

 the original characteristics of each overlap at nearly all 

 points. This is parfii-ularlv true of the Perpetuals, of 



Class I. Summer-flowering Roses, blooming once only. 



A. Lanie-fliiiririil (/louble\. 

 1). Oroirtl, hnnichinii or 



Pruveme 

 Moss 

 Pompon 

 Sulphurea 



Damask and French 

 Hybrid French 

 Hybrid Provence 

 Hybrid Bourbon 

 Hybrid China 



le,il 



L. Small flowered {shirjie 

 iiiHl double). 

 H. tirnivtii eUmhiny: fix. 



produced shiglxj 



BB. Grou'lli .•<hort -jointed, 

 (leiierallii, except in 

 Alpine 



Sweet 

 Penzance 

 Prairie 

 Alpine 

 BBB. Growth climbing: fls. 



in clusters 6. Multiflora 



Polyantha 

 BBBB. Growth free: foliage 





.S-.S-, shint) 



Class II. Summer- and autumn-Slowering Roses, bloom- 

 ing more or less continuously. 



A. Large-flowered. 



B. Foliage very rough ... 9. Bjihrid Perpetual 



10. Hybrid Tea 



11. Mo.'iS 

 BB. Foliage rough 12. Bourbon 



n. Bourbon Perpetual 



BBB. Foliage .imootli 14. China 



Tea 



Lawrenceana (Fairy) 



