WILD EOSES 



BOSE OBDEB 



WILD BOSES 403 



intended for flowering should be allowed 

 to remain long. 



Culture do. as above, p. 882. 



R. macrophylla. — A distinct prickly 

 Rose, about 6 ft. high, native of Thibet. 

 Leaves 2-8 in. long, with eUiptie ovate, 

 finely toothed leaves usually downy 

 beneath. Flowers in summer, pink, 

 1-3J in. across, with broadly obcordate 

 petals. Fruit sometimes 2 in. long. 



Culture do. as above, p. 382. 



R. microphylla. — A sturdy Chinese 

 shrub, 2-4 ft. high, with only slightly 

 prickly stems and small ovate leaflets 

 9-15 in number. Flowers from August 

 to October, rather large, delicate rose, 

 very fragrant. Fruits large, globular, 

 prickly, green or yellowish when ripe, 

 exhaling a Pineapple odour. 



There is a double-flowered variety 

 (flore plena) which has been much longer 

 in cultivation than the type. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 382. 



R. minutifolia. — A compact-growing 

 CaUfornian Kose, the stems of which are 

 armed with numerous straight spines, 

 and clothed with very small leaves having 

 5-7 deeply toothed leaflets. The small 

 solitary pink or white flowers are produced 

 on short spurs along the branches. 



Culture do. as above, p. 382. 



R. mollis. — A British species forming 

 a large bush with erect or arching prickly 

 stems and very hairy leaves. The red 

 flowers appear in June and July and are 

 succeeded . by roundish or top-shaped 

 fruits usuaUy densely covered with 

 prickles. 



Culture do. as above, p. 382. 



R. moschata (B. Brunoni). — Music 

 Base. — A native of S. Europe to India, 

 with climbing stems 20 ft. or more in 

 length. Leaves 2-6 in. long, with 2-4 

 pairs of ovate or ovate-lance-shaped acute 

 leaflets, sharply serrated, somewhat downy 

 beneath. Flowers in July and August, 

 about 2 in. across, yeUowish-white, very 

 numerous, in compound corymbs and 

 delicately fragrant. This is one of the 

 reputed parents of the Noisette Eoses 

 (see p. 393), and is excellent for cutting 

 purposes. In the variety nivea the 

 blossoms are pure white sometimes 

 flushed with pink. 



Musk Eoses are of rapid growth, 

 best adapted for climbers ; they require 

 little pruning. The flowers have a peculiar 



Musk-like scent as a point of distinction, 

 but it requires a stiU, moist atmosphere to 

 be readily appreciable. 



The following are good varieties ; — 



Eliza Worry, nankeen-yellow, chan- 

 ging to white. 



Fringed, white, petals serrated ; 

 cupped. 



Princesse de Nasscm, yellowish straw, 

 cupped, very sweet. 



Bivera, pink shaded with buff. 



R. multiflora [B. pohjcmtJia) . — A 

 native of China and Japan, with stems 

 about 12 ft. long, having scattered slender 

 prickles. Leaflets ovate lance-shaped, 

 slightly vyrinkled. Flowers in June, white, 

 pink, or purple, in corymbs. Fruits 

 bright red. Ca/mea is a double pink- 

 flowered form ; flore pleno differs from 

 the type only in its double flowers, and 

 platyphylla has broader leaflets and pur- 

 ple double flowers. 



The ' Dawson Eose ' is a hybrid be- 

 tween B. rmiltiflora and the crimson 

 Hybrid Perpetual ' General Jacqueminot.' 

 It has gracefully arching sprays of semi- 

 double pink and white blossoms, 12-20 in 

 a cluster, during June and July. It is an 

 elegant Eose for massing in beds on grass- 

 land. 



Culture Sc. as above, p. 382. 



R. nutkana. — A distinct species from 

 N.W. America, having rather broad 

 smooth or downy leaves, at the base of 

 which there are usuaUy some broad flat 

 spines, and occasionally scattered prickles. 

 The flowers are borne in loose corymbs, 

 and are succeeded by round bright scarlet 

 fruits about i in. in diameter. 



Culture do. as above, p. 382. 



R. pisocarpa {B. pisiforrms). — ^An in- 

 teresting Californian Eose having smooth 

 reddish stems armed with straight prickles. 

 It makes a long straggUng freely branched 

 bush clothed with rather small leaves of 

 5 leaflets. The bright pink flowers, each 

 about an inch across, appear in twos and 

 threes in summer, and are followed by 

 roundish red fruits about ^ in. through, 

 which look very attractive. 



Cultu/re do. as above, p. 382. 



R. Pissardi. — A beautiful species 15- 

 20 ft. high, native of the Caspian shores. 

 The spiny glaucous branches are spreading 

 or bent downwards, and are fikrnished 

 with deep green leaves. The sweet- 

 scented white or blush-white blossoms 



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