WILD BOSBS 



ROSE OBDEB 



WILD EOSES 401 



R. alba. — This is of garden origin, 

 and has given rise to the ' Alba ' roses 

 (see p. 397). It grows 4-7 ft. high, with 

 straight or falcate prickles, oblong, 

 glaucous, serrated leaflets, and very fra- 

 grant, white or delicate blush blooms in 

 June and July. Fruit scarlet or blood- 

 red, oblong, unarmed. There is a sweet- 

 scented variety called suaveolens. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. alpina. — A native of Europe, about 

 8 ft. high, with prickles on the young 

 stems. Leaflets 5-11, ovate or obovate, 

 sharply serrated. Flowers in June, pink 

 or rose. Fruit orange-red, ovate or 

 roundish, drooping. The Boursalt Boses 

 (see p. 395) originated from this. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. altaica. — A beautiful species 8-4 

 ft. high with white flowers 2-8 in. across, 

 produced during May and June. The 

 bundle of bright yellow stamens in the 

 centre is in good contrast to the roundish 

 wedge-shaped petals. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. beggeriana. — A pretty shrub 4-6 ft. 

 high, native of Central Asia. The leaves 

 are composed of 3-4 pairs of small elliptic 

 serrate leaflets, and furnish slender 

 branches having only a few recurved 

 spines but no prickles. The small white 

 flowers are borne in rather large corymbs, 

 and continue to appear throughout the 

 summer months. They are afterwards 

 succeeded by fruits not much larger than 

 a pea, at first orange-red, but turning deep 

 purple-black when ripe. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. bracteata {Marcartney Bose). — 

 An erect woolly Cliinese plant about 2 ft. 

 high, armed with strong, recurved, often 

 twin prickles. Leaflets 5-9, obovate, 

 slightly serrated, smooth, shining. 

 Flowers in July, large, white, solitary 

 and sweetly scented. The variety alba 

 simplex has a conspicuous mass of yellow 

 stamens in the centre, while Marie 

 Leonida has large double white' flowers, 

 creamy blush in the centre. 



Culture dc. as above. The Macartney 

 Eoses, though somewhat tender, are very 

 pretty and distinct and almost evergreen. 

 They repay for a little care and should be 

 grown in warm sunny spots on a south 

 wall or fence. 



R. canina {Bog Bose). — A handsome 

 British Eosp forming large bushes in our 



thickets and hedges, and having arching 

 prickly branches with smooth or slightly 

 hairy and sharply toothed leaflets. The 

 beautiful cup-shaped blossoms, 2-8 in. 

 across, appear in June and July, and vary 

 from pure white to deep rose in colour. 

 There are many varieties of the Dog 

 Rose. 



Culture dc. as above. Excellent 

 for hedges, and for stocks. 



R. Carolina (Carolina Swamp Rose). 

 A pretty N. American species 4-7 ft. 

 high, armed with stout hooked prickles. 

 Leaflets 5-9, elliptical. Flowers from 

 June to September, pink, in corymbs 

 of a dozen or more. Fruit somewhat 

 bristly. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. centifolia [Provence or Cabbage 

 Rose). — A pretty Rose 3-6 ft. high, native 

 of the East, with prickly branches and 

 leaves composed of 5-7 ovate serrate 

 leaflets slightly hairy on the under sur- 

 face. The large sweet-scented rose-purple 

 flowers appear in June and July and are 

 succeeded by fragrant top-shaped 'hips.' 

 The variety muscosa with rose or white 

 flowers is the origin of the Moss Rose 

 (see p. 395). 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. damascena [DamasJc Rose). — This, 

 the parent of many garden forms (see 

 p. 397), is a native of the East, and makes 

 bushes 2-4 ft. high. It has very prickly 

 stems and leaves composed of 5-7 ovate 

 stififish leaflets. The large sweet-scented 

 white or rosy flowers are borne in trusses 

 in Jmie and July, and have clammy hairy 

 calyces. 



Culture -dc. as above. 



R. ferruginea (B. rubrifolia). — A 

 European species like the ' British Dog 

 Rose.' It has deep red or purple stems 

 about 6 ft. high, armed with small short 

 hooked prickles. Leaflets ovate, toothed, 

 very glaucous, and brightly tinged with 

 red, wrinkled. Flowers in, August, deep 

 red, small. Fruit purple-red with a soft 

 flesh. 



Culture dc. as above. 



R. gallica. — A native of Southern 

 Europe and Western Asia 2-8 ft. high, 

 with prickly stems and 5-7 ovate or 

 lance-shaped leathery leaflets composing 

 the leaves. The flowers, which vary from 

 red to crimson and are double or semi- 

 double, appear in June and Jiily. 



