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VII. 

 A FAMILY HISTORY. 



Although the roses, like many other highly respect- 

 able modern families, cannot claim for themselves any 

 remarkable antiquity — their tribe is only known, with 



Fig. 43. — Common Cinquefoil. 



certainty, to date back some three or four millions of 

 years, to the tertiarj' period of geologj- — they have 

 }-et in many respects one of the most interesting and 



