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* Prostrate creeping rose much used to cover banks ; leaf-blades com- 



monly 9, very glossy and almost evergreen. Often used for arbors. 

 MEMORIAL ROSE (257) Rosa Wichuraiaiia. 



* Southern nearly or quite evergreen mses fully hardy only in the Gulf 



states, though found in protected places north to Virginia. Flmv- 

 ers large, 2-3* inches, white (rarely pinkish) with thick waxy 

 petals. Handsome roses with dark shining. foliage having stems 

 10-20 feet long with spreading or somewhat climbing habit. (F.) 

 F. Leaves with 5-0 blades; calyx with notched bracts at the base 



and densely silky with hairs; fruit retaining the calyx lobes. 



MACARTNEY ROSE (258) Rosa bracteata. 

 F. Leaves with 3 (rarely 5) blades ; fruit obovoid and without calyx 



lobes when ripe. CHEROKEE ROSE (250) Rosa cheroke"nsis 



(R. laevigata). 



Neviusia alabamensis. Sxow WREATH (260) grows 3 to 8 feet high 

 with alternate straight-veined doubly serrate simple leaves 1^ to 3i inches 





FIG. 260. Snow Wreath. 



FIG. 261. English Hawthorn. 



long. The flowers extend along the wand-like arching stems for several 

 feet, forming ropes of fringe-like flowers, in summer. To the eye these 

 flowers consist only of amass nf stamens. The fruit are silky-coaled and 



