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R. pomifera. — This European species is remarkable for 

 the large red or purplish fruit which it usually bears in 

 abundance, and for which the plant is most in favour. 

 The pinky, usually solitary flowers are of no particular 

 interest. 



R. repens (syn R. arvensis). — Field Rose. Europe 

 (Britain). This species bears white flowers that are 

 produced in threes or fours, rarely solitary. The whole 

 plant is usually of weak and straggling growth, with 

 shining leaves. 



R. rtjbiginosa (syn R. Eglanteria). — Eglantine, or 

 Sweet Brier. This species has pink flowers and clammy 

 leaves, which are glandular on the under surface, and 

 give out a fragrant smell by which it may be recognized. 



R. rugosa (syn R. ferox of Bot. Reg.), a Japanese 

 species, and its variety R. rugosa alba, are beautiful shrubs 

 that have proved themselves perfectly hardy and well 

 suited for extensive culture in this country. They are of 

 stiff, shrubby habit, about 4 feet high, and with branches 

 thickly clothed with spines becoming brown with age. 

 Leaflets oval in shape, deep green, with the upper surface 

 rough to the touch, the undersides densely tomentose. 

 Flowers single, fully 3 inches in diameter, the petals of 

 good substance, and white or rose-coloured. The fruit is 

 large, larger than that of perhaps any other rose, and of a 

 bright red when fully ripe. In so far as beauty of fruit is 

 concerned, this Rose has certainly no rival, and whether 

 for the rockwork or open border it must be classed 

 amongst the most useful and beautiful of hardy shrubs. 

 R. rugosa is a capital hedge plant, and being a true 

 species it is readily propagated from seed. R rugosa 

 Kamtschatika is a deep-red flowered form with deciduous 

 spines. 



R sempervirens. — Evergreen Rose. South Europe and 

 India, 1529. A climbing species, with long, slender branches, 

 armed with hooked prickles. Leaves evergreen, shining, 



