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of glandular moss-like scales or hairs with which 

 their stalks and sepals are covered. It is very like 

 JR. Gallica, but has less tendency to produce suckers ; 

 the prickles are more unequal, and the leaves more 

 flaccid. This is the Rose from which the attar is 

 chiefly made. Crossed and re-crossed with varieties 

 of R. Damascena and M. Indica, this has given rise to 

 the gTOup known as Hybrid Perpetuals — the most 

 popular of all Garden Rosas. 



1{. Damascena is a form of unknown origin, usually 

 considered to be derived from Syria, and perhaps only 

 a form of the preceding. It is characterised by 

 robust habit, stout unequal prickles, leathery green 

 leaves, and reflected calyx-lobes. 



R. JEcai is a newly-described Rose from Afghanis- 

 tan, remarkable for its dwarf habit, dense prickles, 

 and small yellow flowers. This species, with some 

 others, is used for forming hedges in Afghanistan. 



B. sulphurea is another yellow-flowered rose, with 

 leaflets whitish beneath. It is a native of Asia Minor 

 and Persia. 



R. alba has grey rugose leaves and large white 

 flowers. It is a native of the Caucasus, and perhaps 

 of Afghanistan. 



R. involHcrata, the R. Lyellii of Lindley, is the 

 onl}- species of Tropical India, where it forms the 

 Common Rose of the Bengal plains. 



From China comes the . very distinct Macartney 

 Rose, R. hractcata, the foliage of which is sub- 

 evergreen, and deep shining green in colour; the 

 flower-stalks have large bracts, as the leaf-like 

 organs or scales on the flower-stalk are called, and 

 the cup-like flowers are porcelain-white, and very 

 beautiful. 



R. microphijlla is a Chinese species, remarkable for 

 its small and numerous leaflets. It resembles the 

 Macartney Rose, but has the hip studded with 

 bristles, so that the flower-buds are " as rough as a 

 hedgehog." (W. Paul. ) 



R. Indiea is another Chinese species, with evergreen 

 glabrous leaves, glaucous stems, reflexed sepals, and 

 pink flowers. It is the parent of the Monthly, or 

 China Roses, as also of the Bengals, Bourbons, and 

 Teas, and possibly of the Noisettes. The Fairy Roses 

 are referable to this type, as is also the Manetti, 

 used as a stock. 



R. Ranksice is a climbing f oi-m with glabrous ever- 

 green leaves, few or no prickles, and tufts of small 

 double yellow or white flowers of great beauty. 



R. Fortunei is also a climber, with glabrous leaves, 

 small hooked prickles, large solitary white or yeUow 

 flowers. 



Among Japanese Roses may be mentioned R. mul- 

 tiflora, a climbing species, with deeply-divided 

 stipules and bracts, flowers small in clusters, flower- 

 stalks hairy. There are several varieties, of which 



R. polyantha is one, and Rose de la Grifferaie, used as 

 a stoc'k for budding, is another. 



R. nigosa is a very remarkable bush, being densely 

 prickly, with very dark green buUate foliage, and 

 large pink or white flowers two inches or more 

 across, succeeded by large globose red fruit. It is 

 one of the most distinct of the species. 



The Roses of the United States are not numerous, 

 and they have not given rise to many garden forms. 



R. aetigera is the only American climbing form. It 

 has stout straight prickles, and trusses of pink flowers. 



R. Carolina is a species found in cottage gardens, 

 forming a tall bush with stout prickles, leaves greyish 

 beneath ; flowers in clusters, pink. 



M. lucida js lower-growing than the preceding, 

 with very numerous bristles, and a few straight 

 prickles; leaves shining above; flowers in clusters, 

 pink. 



SUBUEBAJSr GARDENING. 



By James HuDSOif. 



SVBVBBAN niFFICULTIJES. PREPARATION. PLANS 

 FOR SEMI-DETACHED VILLAS. 



SUBURBAN gardens differ widely in many re- 

 spects from those situated in the pure air of the 

 country. Only those practically acquainted with the 

 many difficulties and obstacles in the way of suc- 

 cessful cultivation can fully realise these drawbacks, 

 and endeavour by experience gained in past failures 

 to attain to future successes. This is applicable in 

 some degree to every branch of horticulture, but 

 more especially as regards the cultivation of fruits, 

 plants, trees, and shrubs; vegetables, from our ex- 

 perience of the past fourteen years, being the least 

 susceptible to the impropitious influences of fogs, 

 blacks, and smoke. These unavoidable deterrents to 

 vegetation in general have to be overcome in the best 

 way possible, and success in this direction is brought 

 about by a selection of such material in each depart- 

 ment of gardening as is best calculated to withstand 

 , these counteracting influences. 



Those who live in the pure country air have no 

 conception of the many difiiculties that must b? 

 contended with to preserve even a tolerable state of 

 cultivation when surrounded by or adjacent to 

 populous neighbourhoods ; and this condition of 

 affairs is stiU worse when in the vicinity of manu- 

 facturing towns or cities, or in the case of London, 

 for example, where the suburban districts are now 

 thicldy populated in nearly every available instance. 

 This adds to the accumulation of deleterious gases 

 that are given off by the metropolis proper, many of 

 which are slow poison, at the least, to plant-life in 

 general. 



