iSo FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
as, for instance, R. setigera, R. lucida, R. bla/nda, and R. wichuriana. 
About a dozen species are cultivated in English gardens. They are 
distinguished from the generality of Roses by their long, smooth stems, 
bearing few spines, and their vigorous habit. American horticulturists 
have raised some valuable hybrids by crossing the American with 
Garden Roses and with each other. R. laevigata, really a native of China, 
is naturalised in America, where it is known as the Cherokee Rose. 
Principal Species O ne might almost say with safety that all species of 
Rose are worthy a place in the garden, but then few 
gardens would be large enough to accommodate them, and, as a matter of 
comparative value, some species and varieties are much more beautiful 
than others, or more amenable to the climatic conditions of our country. 
As we are unable to give anything like a full list, we must be content 
with a selection of the most suitable forms. 
Rosa acictjlaris (needle-like). Stems 8 feet high, with erect 
branches clothed with needle-like prickles and bristles. Leaves glaucous; 
leaflets oval, slightly wrinkled, saw-toothed, about seven in number. 
Flowers solitary, fragrant; June. Sepals hairy, longer than the spread¬ 
ing, pale blush petals. Fruit egg-shaped, pale orange. A native of 
Siberia (introduced 1805). 
R alba (white). Stems 4 to 7 feet; prickles slender and nearly 
straight, or stout and sickle-shaped; without bristles. Leaves glaucous; 
leaflets oblong, saw-toothed. Flowers, white or pale blush, fragrant; the 
sepals pinnate, turned back; June and July. Fruit oblong, scarlet. 
This is a garden hybrid, supposed to be a cross between R. canina and 
R. gaUica, and has in turn given rise to many varieties. 
R. alpina (alpine). Stems 3 feet, the young ones prickly, but as 
the stems increase in age these fall off. Leaves divided into from five to 
eleven, egg-shaped, doubly-toothed leaflets. Flowers solitary; sepals 
spreading; petals pink or rosy, heart-shaped, concave; flower-stalks 
hanging down after flowering; June. 
R Banksle (Lady Banks’). Stems 20 feet, weak and unarmed, 
climbing. Leaves with one to five flat, often waved, oblong, lance-shaped 
leaflets, saw-toothed. Flowers nodding, white, faintly scented; small 
but numerous; June. There is a variety fiore pleno with very full, 
double flowers, and a variety lutea with yellow flowers. 
R. blanda (alluring). Stems 1 to 3 feet, sparingly clothed with 
easily detached straight prickles. Leaves pale on both sides, minutely 
downy beneath; leaflets five to seven; oval, saw-toothed. Flowers rosy, 
singly or in clusters of two or three; May and June. Fruit globose. 
A native of North America. 
