It is a very prickly, rough-leaved shrub, often reaching six feet in 
height, and the brilliant green of its leaves is splendidly con- 
trasted by the large, deep-rose flowers, which start blooming at 
this season, and often continue until September. It will grow in 
any good garden soil, and is one of the hardiest and most satis- 
factory of wild roses to grow. There are several colonies of this 
rose on the Museum side of the local flora shrubbery. Near 
there are also several plants of the genus Abelia , with pinkish 
white flowers. This is a low bush, scarcely more than two feet 
in height, and is covered with a profusion of bloom. 
Near the newly developing economic section, just south of 
the local flora valley, are shrubs of the silvery-leaved Elaeagnvs 
multi florus. Its yellow flowers, with long tubes and short petals, 
are not very showy, but the plant is interesting because of the 
hairs on all parts of it, and also for the brownish dots on the 
flowers, twigs, and under side of the leaves. It is a native of 
Japan, and makes good-sized bushes, averaging ten feet in 
height. 
N. T. 
NOTICE 
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (of the Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences) is open free to the public daily, from 8 a. m. 
until sunset ; on Sundays and holidays at 10 a. m. Entrances on 
Flatbush Avenue, opposite Prospect Park; on Washington 
Avenue, south of Eastern Parkway; and on Eastern Parkwaj r , 
between the Museum building and Prospect Heights reservoir. 
A docent will meet parties by appointment and conduct them 
through the Garden. Telephone, 6173 Prospect. 
Additional copies of this and preceding Leaflets may be had 
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