. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE EOCK-EOSE. lidiantJiciiUDto viihjarv. ROCK-ROSE may be more jn-operly called a sun-rose^, for a Heliaiithemum must be a flower of the sim. The plants of this class known to gar- dens are very beautiful and thoroughly useful. The rock- roses beloufj' to the Cistua family, which love sunshine, and produce guy flowers. The best of the group is Cixtns ladanifera, a hardy shrub in the south of England, and one that makes an impression when seen at its best, and very often it is in the tniy front garden of some old-fashioned
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE EOCK-EOSE. lidiantJiciiUDto viihjarv. ROCK-ROSE may be more jn-operly called a sun-rose^, for a Heliaiithemum must be a flower of the sim. The plants of this class known to gar- dens are very beautiful and thoroughly useful. The rock- roses beloufj' to the Cistua family, which love sunshine, and produce guy flowers. The best of the group is Cixtns ladanifera, a hardy shrub in the south of England, and one that makes an impression when seen at its best, and very often it is in the tniy front garden of some old-fashioned house in « a sleepy country town that this oay cistus will be found in perfection. Fi'om thence to the grand rockery is a great transition, but having made it, we see the cistus again and amid grander surroundings. But in the many gardens where such plants are wanted to illustrate the variety and splendour of true garden vegetation, we shall scarcely find any cistus or any Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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