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that plant of many names, Spiraea canescens, is only credited with one 

 synonym, S. fiagelliformis, yet catalogues and books refer to it by 

 many another. 



In spite of the intrinsic interest and beauty of many of the shrubs 

 and trees hardy in this country, they are far less well known than 

 they should be, and when they are planted they are far too often 

 permitted to become overgrown and so neglected that the term 

 " shrubbery " is apt to conjure up a picture of tangled lilacs or greedy 

 laurels, with here and there a derelict Euonymus — a dank, neglected 

 spot, such as ought to exist in no garden. It can only be from ignorance 

 of the wealth of shrubs of great beauty that are in cultivation that 

 such spots are to be found, and we hope that the publication of this 

 valuable book will open the eyes of many to the possibilities that 

 are at their hand for making gardens of permanent interest and lasting 

 beauty. 



"The Rose Annual." 1914. Edited by the Hon. Secretary. 

 8vo. 224 pp. (E. Mawley, Berkhamsted.) Free to members of 

 the N.R.S. ; non-members 2s. 6d. 



The " Rose Annual " for 1914 forms a volume very similar in 

 size and appearance to its predecessors. Like them it contains 

 numerous articles by rosarians dealing with Rose-growing in its various 

 aspects, not only in the British Isles, but in France, China, and other 

 places. 



The volume opens with an interesting account of M. Jules 

 Graveraux's celebrated Rose Garden at L'Hay, near Paris, which has 

 the additional interest of being written by the owner of the Garden. 

 M. Graveraux has succeeded in collecting here some 7500 varieties, 

 and though there are some 12,000 names of Roses known, he is probably 

 correct in saying that a large number of them are mere names, and 

 that there can hardly be many more Roses in existence than those 

 which have found their way into the rosary at L'Hay. It is at all 

 events the most complete collection in the world, embracing, as it 

 does, not merely the garden varieties, but a large number of botanical 

 species and forms. 



Two subjects are this year chosen for special treatment : (i) the 

 classification of Roses and (2) the diseases mildew and black spot, 

 and to both these discussions several writers have contributed. 



In the revival of Rose-growing which took place at the beginning 

 of the nineteenth century rosarians were content to follow the botani- 

 cal classification of the genus ; but, as Darwin long ago pointed out, 

 thje Rose lends itself with pecuhar facility to the formation of new 

 groups, but the work of the hybridizer has been so continuous and 

 he has worked in so many directions that many new groups of garden 

 Roses have arisen which not only merge into one another, but seem 

 to cut across the old lines of botanical differences, and in the result 

 the modern system of classification of Garden Roses has become 



