26 ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



rich ground on a dry bottom ; in such a situation, 

 after being well established, they will make shoots 

 twenty feet long in one season. 



ROSA RUBIFOLIA. 



THE PRAIRIE HOSE. 



THIS native is destined to convey to every hall, 

 cottage, and wigwam of the Union, the Rose, the 

 acknowledged queen of flowers. Its constitution 

 is such that it will bear without injury the icy 

 breezes of the St. Lawrence, or the melting 

 vapours of the Mississippi. It was in 1837 that 

 we first saw a double variety of this rose, although 

 such has been cultivated in Ohio and Kentucky 

 for many years. The flowers are produced in 

 large clusters of various shades of colour from 

 blush to deep rose, blooming with us from the 

 end of June to the end of July, being a period of 

 the year when there are few others in a flowering 

 state, thereby filling up a space between the first 

 and second blooming of the Noisette, Tea, and 

 Bourbon families. The foliage is rough, large, and 

 generally of a dark green ; the wood is strong and 

 flexible, and for rapidity of growth has no equal. 



