. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. Rosa is a widespread genus, easily well-marked characters from allied gener limits of the genus itself the characters art variable and it is very difficult to group and species the innumerable forms which often pass gradually into each other. In no other genus, perhaps, are the opinions of botanists so much at


. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. Rosa is a widespread genus, easily well-marked characters from allied gener limits of the genus itself the characters art variable and it is very difficult to group and species the innumerable forms which often pass gradually into each other. In no other genus, perhaps, are the opinions of botanists so much at variance in regard to the number of species. While some, as Bentliam and Hooker, estimate the number at about 2147. A 9-foIiolate Rose leaf. the French botanist G andc'er actuilh d. lubes fr in Eur pe an d western Asia al one 4 _bO peeies Till. mai lit o hot mists 100 ,c les The R s Imos tequa h disti jute i thiou âli the colder an 1 tei jpt ite of thL noitht rn h nasi here m Am 11 iHUl ng U N ith M \iro 11 At 1 to Abvs 1 \ 1 t 1 1 I 1 II Inils of upri 1 Idly piull with lie then or \ 11 1\ml ose at the 1 als 0 rarely â t si iielyfew in clos 1 1 cmes fleshy and 1 1 1 1 many bon\ 1 1 1 1 1 1 the fr itselt 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 rt show 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 such fotr ul ulti H âe Ihe c mnumei il le giiden toims, increas- ing every year aie almost exclusively of hybrid origin and aie therefore omitted m the botanical classification of the genus Many attemi til 1 1 le the genus with n 1 important aie 1 1 I and Baker N I 1 Cr^pin is consi lei 1 tl and has been followed ii il good general nionogr | I 1 Lindley s Alonogi iphia I short one by Ref,el m is (It cations the most important ai 1 cially his Pumitise M jnograj 1 i I suiting his pul lications one has t author change 1 his opinim s i 1 value f tl e species dm ng hi I In hi' lat he r lull the specifac valu 1 and III I e for luerly consileied as distinct specie An illustiated monograph valuable for the knowledge of the older gard


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