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cloud, and all that is loveliest in form of bud and bloom. 

 But these precious roses are things of cultivation only. 

 Without the good gardener's spade and knife they 

 would soon become a tangle with less meaning and 

 beauty than the Wild Brier. Their size and beauty are 

 not to be had without good cultivation, and nothing can 

 so well show us the difference between the Wild Garden 

 and the flower-garden than these fairest garden roses 

 and the Wild Roses of the hills, growing in the same 

 place in quite different ways. 



Having got my garden roses a friend happened to 

 say that the Wild Yellow Rose, that has given us 

 the Austrian Yellow Rose, was wild in the district, and 

 I bought a flora of the country to see something 

 about its Wild Roses^. In it the Wild Roses are 

 grouped as shown below, and the numbers given 

 represent the species in each section. And this, it will 

 be noted, is only in one region of France. 



Here in one district of France, exposed to the_alp 

 wind and frost, we have nearly 4;wo^ hundred kinds of 

 Wild Rose: it~shows how rich the northern world is 

 in rose beauty — at least to all to whom the earth-born 



' Etude des Fleurs. Renfermant la Flora du bassin moyen du Rhone et 

 de la Loire. Par L'Abbe Cariot. Lyon, 1889. 



