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these whicli promise to be most valuable because of their color (especially the 
whites) and habit are 
Rosa caudata. From western China. Pink flowers 2 inches in diameter 
in large clusters; fruit orange-red, i inch long. Perfectly hardy. 
Rosa HelencE. Height 5 to 6 feet. Flowers white, i]4 inches in diameter 
in clusters; fragrant. 
Rosa Hugonis. From Western China. Clear yellow single flowers and 
neat pale foliage.* 
Rosa Jackii. From Korea. Flowers white, 2 inches in diameter, in clus- 
ters; lustrous foliage. 
Rosa miiUibracteata. Innumerable small pink solitary flowers. One of 
the last Chinese roses to bloom. 
Rosa setipoda. Large vigorous shrub with broad, many-flowered clusters 
of dark pink flowers. 
Rosa spinosissima var. altaica. Tall, wide bush. Numerous, large, single, 
white flowers, faintly tinged with yellow. 
It would be difflcult to imagine a more lovely plantation than a long thicket 
of our native roses, bordering a road for instance, beginning with nitida in 
front, then blanda, lucida and lucida alba; these in turn broken by masses of 
multiflora interspersed with setigera, rubiginosa, rubrifolia, etc. The w^hole to 
be backed up by other families of the rose order, such as the native hawthorns, 
plum, flowering cherries and flowering apples. This would not be without some 
bloom from the time of the earliest plum blossom to the last blow of the setigera, 
for probably three months or more; and such a planting can not be surpassed 
in delicacy of autumn and winter beauty. 
* Referred to with much interest elsewhere in the Annual, particularly by Dr. Van Fleet 
and Mr. E. H. Wilson. — Editor American Rose Annual. 
THE VIOLIN RUBBER 
(FICUS PANDURATA) 
BY ROBERT KIFT 
Do you know this uniciue plant? It belongs to the rubber family. Its 
given name is Pandurata, which means "lyre-shaped," its large leaves being al- 
most exactly the shape of a violin. With its dark green foliage strikingly 
marked with white cord-like veins, it is one of the most decorative house plants. 
This city will be afforded an opportunity at the National Flower Show to see 
the grandest collection of plants and cut flowers ever brought together in this 
country. Convention Hall, the largest building in the United States, will be 
taxed to its utmost to house this great display. 
