TREES AND SHRUBS 



hairy above, glandular-pubescent beneath, fragrant, petiole glandular. Autumn 

 tint purplish-brown. 



A deciduous sh-nb, 5-6 ft. ; Branches sub-erect, slender ; prickles stout 

 at base, curved or hooked, slender, scattered, mixed with glandular hairs and 

 bristles, giving rusty appearance ; Buds ovoid, glabrous. 



Native of Britain. Hooker says, " Best distinguished by its sub-erect 

 habit and copious glandular pubescence, which gives out the strong sweet- 

 briar odour." Specific name = rusty-leaved (Ij. rohigo or 7iibigo, -mis, rust). 

 Known also as Eglantine. Syn. R. Eglanteria. 



Leaves and shoots attacked by Green Fly {Siphotiophora), Pea-like Galls 

 produced by R/iodifes eglanterice. 



JAPANESE ROSE, Rosa rugosa. 



Gardens. June. A very robust shrub, noteworthy for its handsome 

 foliage, large single flowers, and fine orange-red, apple-like fruits. It makes 

 a good hedge plant. Thin out shoots in April. 



Flmvers rosy-red, large, solitary, ebracteate ; peduncles with straight, short, 

 scattered prickles ; Sepals lanceolate, entire, reflexed, hairy ; Petals emarginate ; 

 Fruit a cynarrhodium, large and showy, 1 in. or more in diam., resembling 

 apples, orange-red to deep red, depressed-globose, glabrous, pendulous ; 

 persistent sepals, erect, foliaceous, 1|^ in. long. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets 5-9, obtuse, ovate, serrate, wrinkled. 



A deciduous shrub, 4-6 ft. ; Branches slender, prickles very dense, straight, 

 nearly equal. 



Introduced from Japan, 1845. 



SCOTCH ROSE, Rosa spinosissima. 



Open places, especially sandy seashores; gardens. May, June. A small- 

 leaved, prickly little bush-rose, bearing a profusion of white blossoms. Thin 



out shoots in November. 



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