WILD FLOWERS PINK 
and numerous curving, yellowish stamens. The 
bright red fruit is oval in shape and endures 
throughout the winter. ‘Each of the five long, 
narrow, spreading sepals is notched into several 
tips. The Sweetbrier ranges from’ Nova Scotia 
to Ontario, Tennessee and Virginia. 
SWAMP ROSE 
Rosa carolina. Rose Family. 
This very bushy species grows from‘ one to eight 
feet high, and is sparingly armed with distant, stout, 
usually hooked or curved thorns. Five to nine finely 
toothed leaflets, varying in shape from oval to oblong 
or even lance-shaped, form the compound leaf, which 
has a narrow pair of stipules or leaflets at the base of 
the slender leaf stem. The beautiful pink blossoms 
are two or three inches broad: They have numerous 
yellow stamens, and are loosely grouped. The long, 
narrow, spreading sepals do not, as a rule, remain on 
the showy, globular red fruit as do those of the Meadow 
Rose. The Swamp Rose is common everywhere in 
swamps and low. grounds, from June to August. It 
ranges from allof the Atlantic Coast States westward 
to Minnesota and Mississippi. 
LOW, OR PASTURE ROSE 
Rosa bimilis. Rose Family. 
This is the commonest and most abundant of all 
the wild Roses. It grows branching and bushy, from 
six inches to six feet in height, and has very slender, 
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