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brilliant with its glossy bright-green foliage. Of the 

 many good plants from Japan, this is the best that 

 has reached us of late years. The Himalayan Bosa 

 Brunonis is loaded with its clusters of milk-white 

 ' bloom, that are so perfectly in harmony with its very 

 long, almost blue leaves. But of all the free-growing 

 Roses, the most remarkable for rampant growth is B. 

 polyantha. One of the bushes in this garden covers a 

 space thirty-four feet across — more than a hundred feet 

 round. It forms a great fountain-like mass, covered 

 with myriads of its small white flowers, whose scent is 

 carried a considerable distance. Directly the flower is 

 over it throws up rods of young growth eighteen to 

 twenty feet long; as they mature they arch over, and 

 next year their many short lateral shoots will be 

 smothered with bloom. 



Two other Roses of free growth are also great 

 favourites — Madame Alfred Carrike, with long-stalked 

 loose white flowers, and Emilie Plantier. I have them 

 on an east fence, where they yield a large quantity of 

 bloom for cutting ; indeed, they have been so useful in 

 this way that I have planted several more, but this 

 time for training down to an oak trellis, like the one 

 that supports the row of Bouquet d'Or, in order to bring 

 the flowers within easier reach. 



Now we look for the bloom of the Burnet Rose 

 (Bosa spinosissima), a lovely native plant, and its garden 

 varieties, the Scotch Briars. The wild plant is widely 

 distributed in England, though somewhat local. It 



