. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 64: FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. from seven to nine small, roundish leaflets. The Japanese rose is remarkable for its superb, dark- green, bushy foliage; the single flowers are white or pink and the large nearly globular fruit orange-red. This rose blooms in early sum- mer, but its great charm, I think, is its luxuri- ant, ornamental foli- The trailing rose* {Hosa Wi- churaiana) is ex-. tensively planted the stony |pjj/A\ -^ ^-^i borders and rocky r la ^w ^ ledges of parks; it creeps rapidly ov
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 64: FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. from seven to nine small, roundish leaflets. The Japanese rose is remarkable for its superb, dark- green, bushy foliage; the single flowers are white or pink and the large nearly globular fruit orange-red. This rose blooms in early sum- mer, but its great charm, I think, is its luxuri- ant, ornamental foli- The trailing rose* {Hosa Wi- churaiana) is ex-. tensively planted the stony |pjj/A\ -^ ^-^i borders and rocky r la ^w ^ ledges of parks; it creeps rapidly over the ground and sends out in one season stems fully ten Don- Eose. feet long; it bears single white flow- ers ; the tiny thick leaflets are shining dark green. This I'ose, wliich is also Japanese, is one of the most charming of the single kind in cul- tivation ; it is remarkably hardy. It is quite com- mon on the borders of the roads in the Arnold ar- boretum. Yery closely related to the roses are the whitethorns or hawthorns. Only three or four spe- * Catiilofjiicd and sold under the name of Memorial Rose by Peter Henderson & Co., seedsmen, New 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 Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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