THE 



EOCK-EOSE. 



lidiantJiciiUDto viihjarv. 



ROCK-ROSE may be more 

 jn-operly called a sun-rose^, for 

 a Heliaiithemum must be a 

 flower of the sim. The plants 

 of this class known to gar- 

 dens are very beautiful and 

 thoroughly useful. The rock- 

 roses beloufj' to the Cistua 

 family, which love sunshine, 

 and produce guy flowers. The 

 best of the group is Cixtns 

 ladanifera, a hardy shrub in 

 the south of England, and one 

 that makes an impression when 

 seen at its best, and very often 

 it is in the tniy front garden 

 of some old-fashioned house in « 

 a sleepy country town that 

 this oay cistus will be found in perfection. Fi'om thence 

 to the grand rockery is a great transition, but having made 

 it, we see the cistus again and amid grander surroundings. 

 But in the many gardens where such plants are wanted 

 to illustrate the variety and splendour of true garden 

 vegetation, we shall scarcely find any cistus or any sun-rose. 



