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sorts maybe grown among shrubs as free-growing bushes 

 or trained against a wall or low trellis. 



WILD ROSES. Some of these make fine subjects for 

 the shrubbery, or for thickets along drives, or walks, or 

 for covering unsightly banks. Most of them are un- 

 exacting in the matter of soil and situation, and thrive 

 with little attention. One of the prettiest is the Scotch 

 or Burnet Rose (Rosa spinosissima) , a shrub not more 

 than four or five feet high, with long, recurving, fiercely 

 thorny branches set with tender, creamy-white flowers. 

 Much resembling it, but a step nearer perfection, is its 

 relative or variety, R. altaica, of Central Asia, a truly 

 lovely thing; and there is R. hispida, another brier- 

 like relative with lemon- white blossoms. 



R. lucida grows into nice thickets, and its brown 

 branches and gay fruit are welcome in the winter world. 

 In summer it decks itself in fine, luxuriant foliage and 

 gleaming pink blossoms. R. blanda makes a good-sized 

 bush, flowering in clusters of pink flowers, and is well 

 adapted for covering dry banks. 



Besides these there are R. arvensis, single pink 

 flowers and a widely rambling habit; R. setigera, our 

 long-branched Prairie Rose, late blooming and with 

 magenta tendencies; R. rubrifolia, with rambling stems 

 covered with a purplish bloom, and leaves tinted to 

 match the little reddish flowers ; and the Dog Rose (R. 

 canina), with its pretty, scentless blooms and long, 

 straggling branches. 



