the bloom is partially hidden by the foliage. The fruit, which ripens early, is orange-red, ovate and pendulous, with a long neck, something like a sausage. Both leaves and flowers have a very distinct perfume, like turpentine. From this perfume and the peculiar shape of the fruit, R. alpina is easily recognised. This wild rose of the Alps is very hardy, will grow anywhere, and will hold its own when planted with other shrubs. Persistently throwing up suckers which can readily be detached with roots, additional plants can soon be had without resort to budding. It grows readily from seed, and has supplied us with several double varieties, notably the class of hybrids known as Boursalt roses. ROSA BRACTEATA. 1795 Section: Bracteata. Native of China, Formosa, Northern India. The Macartney Rose. This species is said to have been first brought to England by Lord Macartney, in 1765, and is thus commonly known as the Macartney Rose. R. bracteata, like all the roses of this section, is distinguished by the thick woolliness of its fruit and the large size of the bracts, which are covered with minute. hairs and finely pectinated edges. Branches erect, stout, and short jointed, bearing strong parrot-beaked prickles, placed in pairs just below the spring of each leaf-stalk. Leaves very handsome, dark shiny green; leaflets, five to nine. Flowers solitary, large, and attractive, pure white, having a peculiar fruity perfume and an immense number of golden stamens. Indeed, the reproductive organs of this wild rose are in a high state of development, for the stamens number between 350 to 400, and the ovaries from 140 to 170. The fruit is orange red, round and densely covered with pubescence, which give the fruit a woolly appearance. R. bracteata is fairly hardy, but requires for perfect development a south wall up which to be trained. There it will flourish, running up 10 or 12 feet. After it is well established-which takes a year or two-it will quickly cover the wall of a house. I remember a plant, many years old, that grew up a house at Havering facing south, to the height of probably 12 or 14 ite This plant produced handsome flowers continuo during August and September. To grow the Macartney successfully-and it is wel worth doing so select a warm, dry aspect, with pary of sunshine, a niche in the wall of house or to V a buttress, sheltered from the north-east, and a igr enriched soil. Protect the plant for a year or amri I begins to make long growth; nail up the shock as wall and possess your soul in patience. I to prune it, and, when established, you will get with a rose most beautiful, both in foliage me to Rosa lucida, like alpina, is a vil te Tur many old gardens, and growing me ami 1 1 The flowers, borne on bronze green lengthy foot-stalks, are produced in large trusses, each bloom 2 inches or more across, very handsome, white slightly tinted with pink. When the flower is young the stamens are bright yellow, turning black later. A spray of moschata is most beautiful, for on each stem or truss will be found ten or a dozen blooms in various stages of development, from the small green bud to the fully expanded flower, the soft deep pink of the opening bud in pleasing contrast to the white of the perfect bloom. R. moschata takes its name from the perfume of the flower, a musk-like scent noticeable in a moist atmosphere. It is said to be the species from which attar of roses is obtained. It is the parent of several hybrids of the musk rose class, once popular, but now seldom met with. The original Noisette is supposed to be the result of accidental cross-fertilisation between R. indica and moschata. Closely allied to the species before us, and of which they may possibly be sub-species, are moschata nivea and moschata hymalaica. ROSA MOSCHATA GRANDIFLORA. 1886 Section: Synstyle. Native of China. Polyantha grandiflora. Here we have a rose introduced by M. Bernaix in 1886. It is sometimes classed as a multiflora; but if we examine the foliage, especially the stipules, we soon see that it is not of the same class as multiflora simplex and its hybrids, such as Crimson Rambler. M. Crepin and others class it under moschata; at any rate it is not a multiflora. Grandiflora is unrivalled among the wild roses of the world for outdoor cultivation; of tremendous growth, handsome foliage almost evergreen, and pure white flowers 3 inches across, and musk perfume. Branches at first erect, then arching, and finally weeping; wood green, bronzing on the side exposed to the sun. These when permitted to grow naturally lie on the top of the old flowering wood, or any other shrub that is available, in order to become baked by sun and air. If artificially kept upright and not allowed to fall over, the ripening process is retarded, and the wood is then liable to be cut by the frost. If the few prickles which this species carries jump off by a slight pressure of the finger, we know that the wood is ripe, and a fine crop of flowers is in store. If planted on the north side of a hedge or boarded fence it will throw its long shoots over the top, and arch down the other side; if planted with other shrubs it will soon dominate them all. Never mind if it seems to smother them, it is nature's method; to prune it into shape is to court failure. The leaves, dark shining green, are particularly handsome, remaining on the branch until the flowering eyes start into growth the next spring. From these eyes, at the bend of the now weeping branches, come the flowering shoots, thick and sturdy, growing out in some instances 3 or 4 feet long, breaking into further shoots at the top, each smaller growth, devoid of foliage, bearing masses of flowering buds, hundreds coming from one such stem and in various stages of development, so that for a |