Type of Garden Rose 

 Photo by Dr. Shufeldt 



Wild and Garden Roses 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt 



Washington, D. C. 



Of all the flowers in our country probably none are better 

 known than the roses; and surely one would have to hunt a 

 long time to find either a boy or a girl who did not know a wild 

 rose or any of the kind we have in our gardens the instant the 

 flower was seen. But to know a rose is one thing, and to know 

 about roses is quite another thing; and you must not be sur- 

 prised when you hear it said that many a person has devoted 

 a lifetime to the study of these familiar flowers, and then mas- 

 tered but very little of all there is to be known about them.. 



In the first place you must know that wild roses ^^^vow in a 

 great many places over a large part of the Northern ITcmis])licrc'. 

 and that there are fewer wild ones in our countr}^ Jiere than we 



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