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should certainly be classed as a shrub of the highest 

 value. When we have added to these viburnums the 

 best of all, perhaps, for vigor and adaptability, V. 

 dentatum, we will find that the viburnum family forms a 

 host in itself as a source of good lawn-planting material ; 

 indeed, we can readily imagine a lawn most amply fur- 

 nished forth with plants selected from its ranks, for 

 there are many other good species within the limits of 

 what has been long known as the common snowball 

 family. 



There are a few other families that, like the viburnum, 

 seem especially adapted to furnish almost all the lawn 

 needs, in the way of shrubs and vines, from their own 

 ranks, and among these few stand conspicuously the 

 roses. Bushes large and small, climbers and creepers, 

 are all found among the various species of roses, and 

 whether we use bushes of dark-green, healthy foliage, 

 bearing pink and white single flowers and great red 

 seed-vessels, like the rosa rugosa; or delicate, pictur- 

 esque masses, like those of R. laxa or R. multiflora; or 

 R. rubiginosa, the American sweetbrier; or climbers, 

 like the wild prairie queen, R. setigera, most vigorous 

 and picturesque of all; or R. wichuriana, with dark, 

 carpet-like masses of leaves studded with numerous 

 white single flowers, we find a delicate, refined, but 

 entirely healthy charm about the whole of them which 

 is quite unique, and which, fortunately, perhaps, does 

 not even suggest a comparison with any other family. 



All these remarks are intended to apply to species of 

 roses, and not to varieties, such as the mildewed and 

 rose-bug attacked hybrid perpetuals, which, when they 

 are required for their beautiful flowers, should be rele- 

 gated to some secluded spot in the garden. 



