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Rosa laevigata, Michaux. (R. Sinica, Aiton.) 



The Cherokee-Rose. China and Japan. Considered one of 

 the best Hedge-roses, and for that purpose much employed 

 in North America. It serves also well for bowers. Allied 

 to the foregoing species. 



Rosa moschata, Miller. 



North Africa and South Asia as far east as Japan. From 

 the flowers of this extremely tall climbing species also essen- 

 tial oil is obtained. The Attar thus derived from Koses of 

 not only different varieties but even distinct species must 

 necessarily be of various quality. 



Rosa sempervirens, Linne. 



From South Europe throiigh Southern Asia to Japan. One 

 of the best Rose-bushes for covering walls, fences and similar 

 structures. Also the flowers of this species can be utilised 

 for Rose-oil. 



Rosa setigera, Michaux. 



North America, where it is the only climbing Rose-bush. It 

 deserves introduction on accoimt of its extremely rapid growth, 

 ten feet to twenty feet in a season. Its flowers however are 

 nearly inodorous. 

 Other original species of Roses deserve our attention, Dr. J. 

 Hooker admitting about thirty, all from the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere. But on the snow-clad unascended mountains of 

 Borneo, Simiatra, New Guinea, and Africa south of the 

 Equator yet perhaps new Roses may be discovered, as they 

 have been traced south to Abyssinia already. 



Rosa spinosissima, Linne. 



Europe, North Africa, Middle and North Asia. Adapted 

 for holding coasts-sands ; unapproachable to pasture animals, 

 and not spreading like the Sweet Briar, R. rubiginosa (L.) 

 into culture-land or pastures. 



Rosmarinus officinalis, Linne. 



The Rosemary. Countries around the Mediterranean Sea. 

 This well-known bush is mentioned here as a medicinal plant, 

 from which a distilled oil is rather copiously obtainable. One 

 of our best plants for large garden-edgings. The oil enters 

 into certain compositions of perfumery. 



Royenia Pseudebenus, E. Meyer. 



South Africa. Only a small tree, but its wood jet-black, 

 hard and durable, thus in Capeland and Cafiraria called 

 ebony. R. pubescens (Willd.), according to Dr. Pappe, 

 furnishes there a wood adapted for xylography; this may 

 give a clue to the adaptability of many other kinds of woods 

 in the large order of Ebenace£e as substitutes for the Turkish 

 boxwood. 



