32 • ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



ROSA RUBIGINOSA. 



THE SWEET BRIER. 



The Eglantine has been the theme of poets and 

 lovers for many centuries. It is to be found in some 

 sort growing wild in many parts of both hemispheres. 

 To the flower there is no special beauty attached, 

 being a very simple-looking single pink blossom. 

 Although there may be great beauty in simplicity, 

 yet to admirers of the rose, singleness is at once an 

 objection. The odour emitted by the plant after a 

 shower, or when fresh with the dews of evening and 

 morning, is certainly very grateful, and even deli- 

 cious. Wherever there is a hedge to be planted, it 

 should have a ft^w plants of the s^veet brier inter- 

 spersed ; it bears clipping well, and even a hedge 

 of itself would prove a garden ornament rarely 

 equalled, being of a lively green, and its many asso- 

 ciations will make it alwa3's pleasing. To keep it 

 within bounds, it can be freely clipped or sheared 

 twice a year, and should not be allowed to get over 

 four feet high. The plant grows in many of our 

 woods, and is described by some American botanists, 

 although others considered it to be an acclimated 



