ROSA. Rose. Widespread in the Northern Hemisphere. We are assembling a diverse collection of roses, including a few common favorites, some of the best of the old roses, modern extensions of the same themes, and species from California and elsewhere. Most of them have the typical spiny stems and leaf stalks which make being a rose enthusiast such a bloody business. Their classic five-petalled (or ten to hundreds in the double-flowered selections) flowers are borne in clusters at the shoot tips. Many are wonderfully fragrant (oddly enough, their intensity and specific variations in scent often go undescribed in rose texts, as if all were alike). The “hips”, or fleshy seed capsules, which follow can be quite decorative, usually more so in the species and the hybrids closest to them. Most of the following prefer sun but tolerate a wide variety of soils and watering regimes. Hardy to 0^oF or less, except as noted.

foliolosa. The plant received under this name only roughly fits the textbook descriptcation. It is moderate in growth, with flexible stems up to 4' high (it will need some support for best appearance). The leaflets are dark and noticeably narrower than those of most roses. It bears beautiful deep pink, fragrant flowers, about 2" across in this form, in late summer. The leaves color beautifully in late fall.