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VII. 

 A FAMILY HISTORY. 



Although the roses, like many other highly respect- 

 able modern families, cannot claim for themselves any 

 remarkable antiquity — their tribe is only known, with 



Fig. 43. — Common Cinquefoil. 



certainty, to date back some three or four millions of 

 years, to the tertiary period of geology— they have 

 yet in many respects one of the most interesting and 



