96 Rose (Rosacece) 



Fruit, black, well-flavored. July, August. 



Found, in sandy woods of southern New York and Penn- 

 sylvania, southward and westward. 



A shrub two to three feet high. 



(5) Genus ROSA, Tourn. (Rose.) 



Flowers, with five reverse egg-shape or reverse heart- 

 shape petals. Calyx-tube, fleshy, contracted at the 

 throat, urn-shaped. Stamens, many. Pistils, many, 

 embedded in the inner surface of the calyx-tube. 



Leaves, compound (odd-feathered), alternate, edge of 

 leaflets toothed, lower edges of the leaf-stem with 

 prominent wings (stipules). 



Fruit, a more or less reddish or greenish ball (" hip ") 

 enclosing the many dry one-seeded seed-cases. A 

 covered cluster of akenes. 



" If Jove would give the leafy bowers 

 A queen for all their world of flowers, 

 The rose would be the choice of Jove, 

 And blush, the queen of every grove." TH. MOORE. 



" The rose doth deserve the chiefest and most princi- 

 pall place among all flowers whatsoever, . . . for his 

 beautie, his vertues, and his flagrant and odoriferous 

 smell. Gerard's Herball, London, 1597. 



" The rose is the honor and beautie of flowres, 

 The rose is the care and the love of the Spring, 

 The rose is the pleasure of the 'avenly powers : 

 The boy of faire Venus, Cythere's darling, 

 Doth wrap his head round with garlands of rose, 

 When to the daunces of the Graces he goes." 



Gerard's Herball, London, 1597. 



