. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. s tendency to sport into now forms—is that whichmakes the plant so uncertain in the wild state. In the wholeof Britain, according to Bentbara, there are only five speciesof native Roses, while otner botanists hesitate between nine-teen and twenty species. We mention this to show that it isnot surprising, when we come to examine an interestingJapanese Rose, that we should be iu doubt what botanical nameto give it. But first as to the Rose itself, which we met withseveral years ago in the garden of Mr. James Hogg, to
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. s tendency to sport into now forms—is that whichmakes the plant so uncertain in the wild state. In the wholeof Britain, according to Bentbara, there are only five speciesof native Roses, while otner botanists hesitate between nine-teen and twenty species. We mention this to show that it isnot surprising, when we come to examine an interestingJapanese Rose, that we should be iu doubt what botanical nameto give it. But first as to the Rose itself, which we met withseveral years ago in the garden of Mr. James Hogg, to whomit had been sent from Japan. It being quite unlike anyother Rose in our garden, we were much pleased to receivein the course of a few months specimens from Mr. Hogg, andalso from Mr. John Saul, of Washington—and no Roses iu ourlittle collection aiford ns more pleasure than these do. Thosewho think a Rose not worth looking at unless it is as doubleas a Drumhead Cabbage will hardly consider this single Rosedesirable, but those who can see beauty in a plant, even if it. Ripe Fruit of Rosa rugosa alba (natural size). have not double flowers, will regard it as a fine orna-mental shrub. This Japanese Rose grows from 2 ft. to 3 , and with its numerous branches forms a very compactbush. Its young stems are very downy, and thickly besetwith sharp but weak prickles, of very unequal size. Thestems being short-jointed, the leaves are brought vei-y closelytogether, and make a dense mass of foliage; the leaves areabout 4 in. long, with usually seven elliptical leaflets, whichare light-coloured on the under surface, being covered with adown of dense somewhat glandular hairs, and conspicuouslyveined; the upper surface, on the contrary, is perfectly smooth,somewhat shining, and of a very dark green; the surface isstrongly marked by depressions corresponding to the veins soprominent below, making the leaves appear to be plaited; thestipules are comparatively small. Taken as a shru
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