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are two sub-species, R. arvensis proper (R. repens) having 

 the leaflets glabrous, glaucous beneath, and R. stylosa with 

 leaflets pubescent beneath. This last connects R. arvensis 

 with R. canina, and under it the several varieties occur. 

 The variety Monsoniae, found in a hedge at Watford, has 

 very large red flowers and sub-globose, orange-red fruit. It 

 is our present R. arvensis proper to which the Ayrshire Rose 

 must be referred. The flowers are more cup-shaped than 

 those of any other British Rose, and Lindley says that 

 Sabine had a variety with pink flowers. No illustration has 

 before appeared in any journal, but a figure in " English 

 Botany " shows to some extent what a fine thing it is. The 

 plant has long, trailing shoots, with small, scattered prickles, 

 oval leaflets, glabrous on both surfaces, and glaucous or 

 whitish green beneath. The flowers are of elegant outline, 

 with pure white corolla, except the throat, which is yellow, 

 and have a purple calyx. The fruit is scarlet when ripe. It 

 is a common plant in the south of England. This same 

 form, probably, is very charming in the Cambridge Botanic 

 Garden, where it grows over and over itself, making a great 

 round hummock of flowers and foliage.'" 



Sloe, Bullace, Wild Cherry, Rowan, Wild 

 Service, White Beam, Wild Pear, Crab, Medlar, 

 May. These are native trees — some of them of much 

 beauty, taking great share in the landscape beauty of 

 our country, and a place in its literature — some of 

 them being the source of our best hardy fruits. I 

 wish to plead for their use in the wild garden, if 

 not in the garden itself. What is more beautiful in 

 the landscape than a snowy wreath of old sloe trees 

 in spring, seen beyond the wide fields, or more 



