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Autumn Roses

One of the finest of autumn roses, and also one of the best for forcing is the Countess Serene, shown two-thirds its natural size. It should be in every collection, however small. It is in color a silvery pink, has great beauty of form, delicate mottling, and other merits which should command attention. Page 514. FLOWERS OF WHITE FLOWERING DOGWOOD. NATURAL SIZE The "Louis Van Houtte" is a rather tender variety, but prolific, and is decidedly the peer of any crimson rose known. We illustrate of full size on page 515. In color it is a deep crimson maroon; it is of medium size, full, semi-globular form; has large foliage, fewer thorns than the other dark roses, and is highly perfumed. Its special merits are fine durable color, great sweetness, free blooming, and excellence in form. But magnificent as roses are, and admired as they are by all, they are subject to many drawbacks, of which insect pests are not the least. Lice and slugs must be watched for, and hence we favor the perpetuals, and the still more tender tea roses. They may be wintered in the cellar, and will give ample satisfaction bedded out. Yet the hardy June roses must by no means be neglected. These should find a place in every garden.

VII. Flowering Shrubs.

ALL may have shrubs and clinging vines. From the better flowering sorts, of which we illustrate many, as to their flowers and leaves, there is large room for selection. In this connection we shall have little to say of trees. They will naturally come in when treating of Landscape Gardening. The shrubs figured will be taken alphabetically, the English name following the proper scientific term.