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recitations of the ordinary rosary, during which 

 there is a reflection upon fifteen my 

 Saint Dominic is credited with introducing this 

 form of devotion into the Roman Church. Mo- 

 hammedans and Buddhistl also make use of 

 beads in their pray 



The Song. One of the songs of the present 

 generation which has touched the hearts of the 

 people and bids fair to become a permanent 

 addition to the world's music is The Rosary, 

 composed by Ethelbert Xevin (which see). The 

 words, by Robert Cameron Rogers, are given 



a remarkably harmonious musical setting. They 

 - follows: 



The hours I spent with thee, clear heart, 



Are as a string of pearls to me ; 



I count them over ev'ry one apart, 



My rosary, my rosary ! 



Each hour a pearl, each pearl a pray'r 



To still a heart in absence wrung: 



I tell each bead, unto the end, 



And tluTo a cross is lump : 



O memories that bless and burn J 



barren gain and bitter loss ! 



1 kiss each bead, and strive at last to learn 



To kiss the cross, sweetheart ! To kiss the cross. 



THE STORY OF THE ROSE 



roses on one slender spray 

 In sweet communion grew " 



Montgomei 



OSE, a name that has come to be 

 a symbol of fragrance and loveliness, borne by 

 a genus of flowers found in all parts of the north 

 temperate regions, and unsurpassed in beauty 

 of form and color. No flower name brings to 

 the mind more varied and more beautiful pic- 

 tures than this pictures of the sweetbrier, the 

 loveliest wild flower of the country roadsides; 

 of its delicately-reared cousin, the fragrant 

 American beauty, whose rich red petals are so 

 soft and smooth they seem to be made of vel- 

 vet; of white and yellow roses and roses show- 

 ing every shade of pink and crimson. References 

 to the rose in literature and poetic tributes to 

 this flower are numberless. The one which fol- 

 I typical, and is from the pen of Thomas 

 Moore, who also wrote that favorite rose song, 

 The Last Rose of Summer: 



Rose ! thou are the sweetest flower 

 That ever drank the amber shower ; 

 Rose ! thou art the fondest child 

 Of dimpled Spring, the wood-nymph wild. 



Of the wild rose it has been said that 



Our sweet, autumnal western-scented wind 

 Robs of its odors none so sweet a flower, 

 In all the blooming waste it left behind, 

 As that the sweetbrier yields it. 



In English history a red and a white rose 

 were the respective emblems of the rival houses 

 of Lancaster and York (see ROSES, WARS OF 

 THE) . How England came to adopt the red rose 



as its national emblem is told in these volumes 

 in the subtitle National Flowers, under the 

 heading FLOWERS. Persia has for its national 

 flower the Cherokee rose, a white Chinese rose 

 that flourishes in the Southern United States; 

 this is the state flower of Georgia. New York 

 also has adopted the rose as its state flo\ver 

 (see subtitle State Flowers, in article FLOWERS, 

 and also subtitle Language of Flowers). Roses 

 flourish particularly well in mild climates like 

 those of Southern France and the Pacific coast 

 regions of the United States. In Portland, Ore., 

 which is preeminently a "Rose City," a day in 

 June is set aside each year for the celebration 

 of the carnival of roses, and this custom is fol- 

 lowed in other cities of the West. 



Kinds of Roses. The rose genus has given 

 its name to one of the most important families 

 of the plant kingdom (see Rose Family, below). 

 Of this family it may be considered the type. 

 Roses grow in such a variety of soil and climate 

 and adapt themselves so readily to cultivation 

 that different varieties have been developed by 

 the hundreds. Botanists disagree widely in their 

 classifications, the estimates for number of spe- 

 cies of roses ranging from thirty to 250. In its 

 natural state the rose plant is an erect or climb- 

 ing shrub, which bears thorns and single flow- 

 ers having five petals. The flowers borne by 

 cultivated varieties are generally double, arid 

 some forms have been produced that are thorn- 



