MEADOW ROSE 



The flowers are delightfully decorative. Cut the 

 branches when the blossoms begin to appear, supply 

 them abundantly with water and the buds will unfold 

 day after day for a week, giving a most charming suc- 

 cession of opening roses ; for the little branch seems 

 scarcely conscious that it has severed connection with 

 the root. 



In cultivation, this child of the prairies requires a 

 deep rich soil and generous treatment. Gardeners 

 recommend that it be planted on the top of a bank 

 that its long, vigorous and graceful shoots may grow 

 in their own wild-wood fashion to cover it. So 

 treated it is a thing of beauty throughout the summer. 



Rosa setigera may be easily recognized among its 

 companions at any season of the year by its long 

 trailing stems ; in summer by its three leaflets ; in the 

 blooming season by the rich flower clusters and also 

 by the peculiar upright column which the styles make 

 in the centre of the flower. 



MEADOW ROSE. EARLY WILD ROSE. SMOOTH 



ROSE 



Rosa blanda. 



Low, erect, one to four feet high ; found mostly in rocky 

 places. Ranges from Newfoundland through New England to 

 central New York, west to Illinois along the region of the Great 

 Lakes. Stems a dark venous red ; slender prickles sometimes 

 present but not abundant ; no spines. 



Leaves. — Leaflets five to seven, an inch to an inch and a half 

 long, oval or obovate, wedge-shaped or rounded at base, simply 

 and somewhat irregularly serrate, obtuse or acute at apex, short - 



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