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* Prostrate creeping rose much used to cover banks ; leaf -blades com- 



monly 9, very glossy and almost evergreen. Often used for arbors. 

 Memorial Rose (257) — Rosa Wiohurai^na. 



* Southern nearly or quite evergreen roses fully hardy only in the Gulf 



states, though found in protected places north to Virginia. Flow- 

 ers large, 2-3J inches, white (rarely pinkish) with thick waxy 

 petals. Handsome roses with dark shining foliage having steius 

 10-20 feet long with spreading or somewhat climbing habit. (F.) 

 r. Leaves with 5-9 blades ; calyx with notched bracts at the base 



and densely silky with hairs ; fruit retaining the calyx lobes. 



Macartney Rose (258) — Rosa bracte&,ta. 

 F. Leaves with 3 (rarely 5) blades ; fruit obovoid and without calyx 



lobes when ripe. Cherokee Rose (259) — Rosa cherok^nsis 



(R. laevigata). 



Neviiisia alabamSnsis. Snow Wreath (260) grows 3 to 8 feet high 

 with alternate straight-veined doubly serrate simple leaves 1^ to 3^ inches 



Fig. 260. — Snow Wreath. 



Fig. 261.— English Hawthorn. 



long. The flowers extend along the wand-like arching stems for several 

 feet, forming ropes of fringe-like flowers, in summer. To the eye these 

 flowers consist only of a mass of stamens. The fruit are silky-coated and 



