The Rose • Queen of Flowers 
LL the world loves a Rose. Indeed, the Rose is 
the one flower which appeals to the whole world. 
In the golden tropics it displays itself in almost 
wanton profusion, and in the far and frozen North the 
brief span of days which marks the summer season is sig- 
nalized by the appearance of a wee, modest, single Rose 
which the Esquimaux nurse as tenderly, and gloat over as 
miserly, as the most enthusiastic rosarian his matchless 
American Beauties and General Jacqueminots. 
The Orient, too, has its Roses; for has not Japan 
given to the world the popular Memorial (Wichuraiana) , and 
Damascus the exquisite Damask Rose? In Cashmere, Bar- 
bary, Egypt and India, vast fields of Roses are grown for 
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