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THE STATE ELOWEES 

 By Si Irs. G. T. Drennan 



NO. TI. — GEORGIA — THE CHEROKEE ROSE. 



(Bosa Laevigata. / 



ABEIGHT and shining example of inde- 

 pendence under all circumsTances. the 

 ■ Clierokee rose lias been ctiosen as the 

 state flovrer of Georgia, Typical of the soil, 

 the climate and the people of Georgia, this 

 hardy, evergreen rose, coexistent Trith the 

 Cherokee Indians, who occupied the country 

 east and south of the Alleghanies. including the 

 entire state, the Cherokee rose long ago pre- 

 empted extensive territory for its ovm occu- 

 pancy 



The name, the culture and adoption of the 

 Cherokee rose were from the earliest •vrhite 

 settlers of Georgia. The log houses of the 

 pioneers vrere beautified by this hardy rose 

 clambering over the sides and shading the 

 porches. Time and opportunity vrere then 

 limited. Only the medicinal and sweet herbs, 

 and plants of economic value, as indigo for 

 dyestuff, and flax for thread, were grovrn in 

 the gardens, with the" exceijtion of the re- 

 stricted number of ornamental plants as free 

 and hardy as the Cherokee rose. 



Log houses gave way to frame and brick 

 residences, towns sprang up and grew to cities. 

 Georgia has keT)t steady trend vrith the progress 

 of the past century, and in the matter of hor- 

 ticulture and floriculture is one of the leaders 



among states Xorth and South. All this in- 

 crease of the new and the best of eveiything 

 has filled the parks an^i gai'iens full to over- 

 flowing v.'ith roses the rare-:, i-:^-----^- ■ 

 loveliest to be seen, crow^ding :he ' i \ : : :_v-rr 

 Cherrkee rose. Escaped from culrnre. it l:as 

 gruvn Tvith the lujciiriance h'^m oi p'jwer to 

 maintain and make its ov-n surroundings. 

 Congenial to the soil and climate of Ge-r^:!:-'. 

 it has grown upon the site of many an-.l ir.;..::;.- 

 old gardens and long f-rgotten homes: ran:;/.- : 

 along rail fences that have decayed and crv.n.- 

 bleil from age. these strong rose vines have 

 made impenetrable hedges: picturesque tree 

 trunks, boulders, rocky hillsides and waste places 

 that would be washed into gullies, blots on the 

 landscape but for the Cherokee rose, vrhich in 

 all these places, here, there and everywhere 

 over the stare, on soil that is sr^ar-r'! t'j vrild 

 growth, it is. in its untrammeled 

 more striking in scenic effect than ^ \\\ \ be 

 possih'le under the restricti': ns ^'f -■uhure. 



Cherokee roses are as v-hi:e a- sn^'vr. vriTh 

 single corollas and bright golden centers. They 

 bloom Ijy thousands u}:'On thou5a!--ds. and on a 

 bright spring morning the b-f-au^y of these 

 roses must be seen to be realized. 



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