‘WILD FLOWERS PINK 
during June, July, and August, from Nova Scotia to 
Ontario and Michigan, and south to Georgia and 
Tennessee. 
The Salmonberry or White Flowering Raspberry, 
R. parviflorus, is a similar species, having fewer, 
white, oval-petaled flowers and less bristly but 
coarser - toothed leaves, the latter having the centre 
lobe, not conspicuously longer than the others. 
It is found in rocky woods from Michigan and 
Minnesota to Alaska and California, and south in 
the Rocky Mountains to Utah and _ Colorado, 
from May to July. The fruit is red. 
WILD ROSES 
Of all the flowers exalted by mankind, none has been 
more frequently associated with his history and litera- 
ture than the Rose. Its praises have been sung in many 
tongues, and its popularity harks back to very ancient 
times. Tradition repeatedly ascribes many and 
varied accounts to the Rose. The red Rose is a token 
of love and affection; the redder it is, the better it is 
so understood and accepted. The Turks hold that 
red Roses sprang from the blood of Mohammed. The 
Rose of Jericho has been called Saint Mary’s Rose, and 
is said to have first blossomed at the Saviour’s birth, 
closing its petals upon His Crucifixion, and reopening 
them again at the Resurrection. For over three hundred 
years, May 1st was gorgeously observed in. France as 
the Tribute of Roses, when the youngest peer pre- 
sented a silver bowl of Roses to the Court. In Egypt, 
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