POPULAR GARDEN PLANTS. 



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as well as for cultivation as weepers. They require no 

 pruning except to reduce their size when overgrown. 



Countess of Lev en. Creamy-white, semi-double. 



Dundee Rambler. Small, double, white. 



Ruga. Large, double, pale-flesh. 



Hplcndens. Large, semi-double, white, red margin. 



Thoresbyana. Small, double, white. 



Evergreen Roses. — Forms of R. sempervirens, a Euro- 



Fig. 621.— Rosa spinosissima, var. altaica. 



pean species. They are only sub -evergreen, retaining 

 their foliage till late in winter. They are hardy and very 

 vigorous, producing their flowers in large clusters. They 

 are fine pillar and weeping Roses. The shoots should be 

 merely thinned in pruning. 



Felicite Perpetue. Cream -white. 



Flora. Pink, full. 



Leopoldine d' Orleans. White, shaded with rose. 



Myrianthes Renoncule. Blush, rose margin. 



Princesse Marie. Reddish-pink. 



Fig fi22— Rose Austrian Copper. 



Rampante. Pure-white. 



Russelliana. Crimson. 



Spectabile. Large, rosy-lilac. 



William's Evergreen. Creamy-white. 



Multiflora Roses. — There has been considerable con- 

 fusion in this class, the fact being that it represents two 

 totally distinct groups. R. multiflora is a vigorous-growing 

 species from China and Japan, with large clusters of small 

 white • single flowers not unlike those of the Bramble. 



This has been called R. polyaniha, a name also given to 

 a hybrid between it and R. indica (fig. 624), which has 

 single white flowers sometimes 3 inches across. Still 

 another set, known as Polyantha Perpetual Roses, is 

 that which includes the Fairy or Miniature Roses, some- 

 times called R. Lawrenciana. Thus, under the name of 

 Multiflora Roses we have extremes in growth ranging 

 from 1 to 15 feet ; while some are perpetual-blooming, 

 others flower only in early summer. To simplify matters 



