SHUFELDT WILD AND GARDEN ROSES 239 



those of deep carmine shades, and it would seem that som.e one 

 has even bred a blue rose. Still others are of a delicate tea color, 

 and there are no end of the shades of yellow and chromes. 

 It is wonderful how all this has been brought about, especially 

 when you come to know that few, if any, wild roses depart from 

 either white or pale shades of pink. Our best known wild roses 

 are the Pasture Rose, of which we have a colored figure here; 

 the Swamp Rose, the Sweetbrier, the Dog Rose, the Meadow, 

 and the Climbing Roses. But this is by no means the whole 

 list, as any boys' and girls' flower-book will tell you. These 

 are only a few of the principal and best known ones; and when 

 you come to know them well, a study of the others is easy. 

 To gather them in the woods and fields, bring them home, and 

 go to your books to find out their names, soon com.es to inter- 

 est you so much as to be one of the pleasantest of your pastimes. 



Note in the Pasture Rose of the fields, and in the garden one, 

 how different their forms are; still, nearly all this difference is due 

 to the fact that in the wild rose we find but a single circle of 

 pink petals, while in the garden species these are considerably 

 multiplied. This is brought about by careful cultivation, and we 

 never meet with any kind of a true rose in nature that possesses 

 any such nimiber of petals. This is a good point to know about 

 wild and garden roses. Then you should collect and study the 

 different kinds of rose leaves, the various forms of the thorns, and 

 the manner of growth of the plant itself. Rosebuds also differ 

 greatly, and are very interesting, as are the red seed pods, called 

 hips or heps, that w^e find in the autum.n when roses, with all oth- 

 er flowers, have "gone to seed." 



Sometimes the Pasture Rose, just mentioned, will put forth 

 a flower or two late in the fall, just as though it hated that the 

 summer had passed; which is also the case with most little 

 boys and girls. For, from vacation days, with their green fields 

 and wild roses, it is back to books and benches again — with 

 snow and sleds for a change. Well, so much the better; 

 for we will welcom.e and appreciate the wild roses all the more 

 when the sum.mer comes round again, which it surely will. 



